Twitter-dee and Twitter-dumb

The nation as we know it is now fascinated with the tedious, and essentially meaningless, process of Twitter-ing. People are writing about what they are currently doing (but wouldn't that person be writing the Twitter entry at that moment and nothing else?...). Yes Twitter is a form of mass media that informs the masses of a pointless fact or tidbit about the life of a person. Honestly, I could care less if a person is thinking about dying her hair purple or eating a burrito. But Twitter is a way to communicate a message, any message, to the masses, and all who are privy to your profile can see what you are up to. In the case of a person of influence to write about their day in order to communicate with the people (a Governor, perhaps), I believe that Twitter-ing is acceptable. But to talk about random facts or activities for amusement and understanding is beyond my comprehension.

I believe that Jeanne McManus is correct in her thinking about the uselessness about Twitter. Sure, it is a way to connect with others, but it does not seem to me to be a worthwhile use of your time. Twitter-ing is meaningless. If you want to communicate to someone your activity, why not send it directly to that person? Through a phone call, a text message, an e-mail, a postcard or even a mailed letter. Twitter-ing is a use of the modern technology to communicate a message, but what if that message is not important to anyone but the person that wrote it? The technology format of Twitter-ing shows the human obsession with modern progress, which in a way is good. For a person to want to advance oneself, that is good. But taking advantage of technology in order to communicate a message is in of itself useless.