Is it possible to be too connected.
Absolutely.
A recent article entitled “The Twitter Pandemic” played on the current news about the swine flu being so popular. In the article, the author talks about how sometime (or maybe much of the time) sensationalism is used by tweeters to gain attention for their tweet and for any connected blog post or web site. Sensationalism? How about the title of the article that discusses that? The article is titled the “Twitter Pandemic,” written about two days after the mainstream news hyped the heck out of the swine flu.
This kind of writing, or tweeting because when you come down to it tweeting really isn’t writing, sensationalism that is, is nothing new. It’s been around since the days of “yellow journalism” perfected in the late 19th century. But now this writing style is in the hands of people using it without supervision. Not necessarily children, they often are, but folks who write and, by extension of this writing style, act like children. People writing with no fear of liability or recrimination. And as their connectedness increases, our sense of reality fades, leaving us to cut through the sensationalism to find reality.
All for the sake of being “connected.”
