I have never been someone that has gotten into the hype of Twitter so I never created an account. I feel like I have a social media account for most other platforms, whether I use it frequently or not, but I have never actively wanted to make a Twitter to keep up with anyone. I listen to the humor that people are part of when they make conversation about it and I have denied the request of my friends to make my own account to participate in whatever they are doing.
If I am being honest, Twitter confuses me. I somehow don’t grasp the order in which a thread goes and I feel like my own grandparents asking questions about social media that they don’t need to be a part of. Because of the way I feel about not having any interest in Twitter whatsoever, I enjoyed reading about “The Rules of Twitter”. When the author described it has being a hacked platform, I had no idea what was being explained. When I hear “hacked”, my mind immediately thinks of something negative or that access is being granted somewhere that shouldn’t have it. But the way the author made comparisons to explain what that means, I could more easily wrap my head around it.
The author made the comparison of a small patch of grass that became a public space due to its good location and that next to it is a large jumbotron. The only reason this patch of grass is there is because it’s own by an office tower. So now people gather in this spot to watch events on the jumbotron and the lawn is known as a hacked public space. It is not seen as a bad thing, it’s just that a public space was taken over by a population to benefit their wants and needs of their free time. So now that lawn serves their purpose even though it wasn’t created for that purpose.
Do you guys see a hacked public space or a hacked social media platform like Twitter as a good thing or a bad thing that just became successful?
