Sunday, October 18, 2009
1. I think that stellar time, in which our life consists of intermingling scenarios that affect our daily lives, has the most influence on the posts I’ve seen on Twitter. The conversations do not stick to the same topic but rather they are constantly changing. I don’t think any of the posts written by my peers affected me. It is just an empty conversation for me. I did however like the post about the halo cloud over Moscow. I was curious because it is a city in my country. I looked up Russian news for that topic but I found nothing. I guess it does not matter there.
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And that doesn't suggest something to you culturally, that a cloud considered important and sensational here gets no coverage in the country where it appeared?
It's interesting - I would say you probably live by teleological time as you said nobody's posts affected you. People who live in this time theory tend to be guided by their own lives and unconcerned with others unless it affects them directly.
Well, the posts themselves may have not affected you. However, if you at least consider that it took you about a minute or two to read all of them, it might have caused some dramatic changes in your schedule (e.g. a missed green light on the road, running into someone at the neighborhood store, or even missing that train that just left the platform a minute ago). If you think about it, even reading this comment, or posting an answer may change how things work out in the future, as far as the future itself.
Hi, you said, “I think that stellar time, in which our life consists of intermingling scenarios that affect our daily lives, has the most influence on the posts I’ve seen on Twitter” you’re saying that people on twitter are all experiencing little experiences in their life that causes them to post tweets on twitter? Yet, isn’t stellar time also an interconnecting time frame which not only forces people into scenarios but also connects them to each other. How can stellar time be the main time frame in Twitter If it did not connect you to your fellow twitter mates, which can be evident when you say, “I don’t think any of the posts written by my peers affected me”?
re: DMilstein
I doubt it is entirely cultural. It might have been kept from the news because we have strong censorship. This means that if the government doesnt want people to know or doesn't deem it "newsworthy" they will not allow it. So far, some posts have appeared on www.rutube.ru (like youtube but Russian). The site is public and posts aren't monitered as heavily as newspaper or broadcast. The posts were made by eyewitnesses.
In regard to teleological time, I think you are right. I am not often concerned with the lives of others. I suppose we're all different.
I have the same feeling as you do sometimes that none of what my peers say affects me, but thats until something that is relevant to you do show up. maybe things would affect you more if some of you really close friends had twitters and they were posting stuff that's relevant to you and you circle of friends? that's what I feel. When I'm reading status updates of people it's just reading, but when i hit something that i can relate to or understand, it's like all of sudden it makes sense.
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