I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock on my cell phone, and then I received a Google alert about a new product on offer by Twitter. They are now able to take tweets from your Twitter account and print them on two-ply toilet paper for you to use in your own home. WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?
Believe me; I’m not for the Twitter generation. I think that social media is dismantling our ability as humans to come together and interact with each other face-to-face. This is the joy of being human. Animals congregate based out of physical or survival necessity. Humans can come together and use their voice to communicate not only what we need, but to enjoy each others company and build relationships. Social media like Twitter should aid that goal when it comes to long distance communication. What this means is that if you have the opportunity to directly interact with friends or strangers, do not rush to your mobile device. Think of the original chat room: a group of people chatting in a room not hiding behind an ego, self-centred persona that lives in a mobile device. We must come together, not apart.
Back to this Twitter product, are we going to allow these kinds of ideas to exist? Then people react by saying that there is a market for it and they wouldn’t go through all this trouble producing it if there wasn’t a market. To me, that is too simplified. We can’t just create something and say it’s good. We should create things that are useful, fun, and enhance our lives over an extended period of time and not a fashion fad. The reason this ‘market’ exists is because certain people (due to their own inadequacies) turn to post ironic practices instead of stating what they feel. If you don’t know about post irony, read my blog post below about it
My two cents on the matter: There are many people out there with many ideas. We want to support and believe in them because we want to see them prosper, and also when it is our turn that they will do the same for us. But there are some ideas that add no value to our lives, instead they a created for short term fame and dollar signs. If some asked you if you wanted to be smacked in the mouth, you have the right to say no. Now imagine if we did this more often with the consumer industry, my how that ‘market’ will disappear. That’s my two cents, keep the change.
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