TECHNOLOGY BLOG
Twitter:
Will it be the end of our future generations?
With more
and more people spending every possible moment on twitter, what will become of
the future?
Abi Thompson
Theguardian.com,
Monday 14th October 2013
“Tweet me
later, yeah?” No don’t drop by or give me a call, just tweet me. Why? Because it
is the in thing, everyone is doing it. I don’t want to be someone, I want to be
everyone.
Is that all we want to be? Everyone? A society so consumed in what “everyone” is doing that we follow every single link to the newest things, buying the newest technology, blowing money we may not even have just to fit in with the crowd, getting the latest social networking site, or the newest x box game that came out today. To me that seems pointless, just like twitter.
Is that all we want to be? Everyone? A society so consumed in what “everyone” is doing that we follow every single link to the newest things, buying the newest technology, blowing money we may not even have just to fit in with the crowd, getting the latest social networking site, or the newest x box game that came out today. To me that seems pointless, just like twitter.
Anyone who
is “everyone” has twitter. It is the basis of “everyone’s” lives. Instead of
going out for a meal with our friends or family we spend our nights cooped up
in our rooms on our phones or our computers, on twitter. This is because society
has told us to. People are forgetting how to have a proper conversation because
the way they socialise is through tweeting.
People forget who their family is because they are so wrapped up in the
stranger that has just followed them back and they immediately have to tweet their friend saying “guess
what? That guy I followed finally followed me back!” congratulations a stranger
followed you because he would feel bad if he didn’t follow you back.
Twitter is brainwashing
society, ruining the chances of our future generations having any friends other
than “twitter robots”. What a future this will be!
If you have
a questions or would like to make any comments about this article please tweet
me using @AbiThompson
Abi, you have a lively, interesting voice with good use of anecdotes/examples and emotive writing e.g. hyperbole. 1) you have misjudged your audience as anyone reading the Guardian Technology section will be a technophile not -phobe and 2) I cannot see any of the information from the sources that I asked you to show you could integrate into your writing without plagiarising. Could you write at least a paragraph of a new one using the info, please?
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