http://nooccar.com An east coast couple raising a family deep in the southwest. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:28:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://nooccar.com/2009/04/17/has-twitter-become-too-mainstreamed/ http://nooccar.com/2009/04/17/has-twitter-become-too-mainstreamed/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:49:04 +0000 nooccar http://nooccar.com/?p=580 So as we all know, Oprah is on Twitter. Jen Anniston dumped John Mayer because he tweets too much. Ashton and Demi live their relationship there now. I am not getting into the cultural theory behind this shift in this Web 2.0 tool, but i am more interested in the negative perspective of Twitter now that it’s hit “mainstream”. It was once for geeks like us, and now it’s everywhere. There’s a proliferation of Twitter in Hollywood/celebland and also in the younger gen. I don’t know who all is on here but I teach high school full time and knew my audience here (i.e. Twitter) was NOT my underage public school students but now it has become that. And no, I do not publicize me on Twitter at school. So I wanted to see other people’s perspectives on this. Today I posted something about Twitter and a former student replied that Twitter is a problem solution made for a problem that never even existed … (yeah, I don’t know either) but I am getting these ignorant people who only know about @mrskutcher or @oprah because it’s all over the news and then comes to judge me as if I didn’t love the band before their hit record, if you get my drift. Any thoughts?

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