Barney: (to Ted) "Look at you, ya beautiful bastard! You suited up! This is totally going in my blog!" - How i met your mother.

Twitter as a free online social network can introduce many different people to the Twittersphere, including the one and only Barney Stinson who is included in the group that likes to 'like totally tell everyone what they are doing like all the time', and by some are known as Twidiots. On the other hand twitter is full of people who use the site as a great tool for an information source. People can write about anything including live updates of natural disasters, football information or Goss on their favourite celebs and so much more. 

Its seems that the site is used as a diary type blog that is quickly spiralling out of control. Appearing that people need to read or inform everyone on what they are doing, every second.  Twidiots (these people who tell us everything) are posting useless posts such as ‘Had a ham and cheese sandwich at the ATL airport. Awesome stuff here…’ – now why would anyone want to know that?

like this song, through twitter I have read a whole persons day of tweets including: ‘just woke up, great sleep’, ‘about to have a nice shower’, ‘omg lunch tasted sooo good, I’m amazing at cooking 2 min noodles’ and ‘so hungry...mum where is dinner at?’.  Yes thanks everyone, I now know you live like a human, eat food and keep yourself clean!  - Awesome!!! i am clearly one of those people who dont understand this! yes, ok i am prone to the occassional update of something that i believe to be exciting in my life, this could be the excitement of a night out (unlcuding a lastest status about my night at usher) or asking a question to help me with study, but i dont understand why pelople need to tell us everything?!

On the other hand as far as an effective resource for live updates on media stories, twitter is a great way for everyday people to keep in touch with the major events live on their computer; this is because many people use twitter to inform others on a current situation live from the problem or issue. Over the last year this has been shown a lot in natural disasters all over the world. People stuck in floods anywhere from Brisbane to Japan have let family and friends know over twitter that they are safe; also allowing others to know what is going on and where to go to get away from these problems, a great way to use the site.

so its very understandable why people would want to use twitter to read or inform others on major events, but what is the sudden obsession with knowing everything about peoples lives? 10 years ago no one would have called someone to tell them they are having a shower, and if they did, they would probebly get hung up on, so what makes us what to read or write to others that? and because of this, is twitter really being used to its full potential? or just for useless babble?