My 12 year old asked me recently whether something had happened on Twitter that had affected me. So I told her, in anonymised form of some of the drama and stories, of the contact in Australia at the time of the floods, of the American friends, the Brazilian, the Canadian -and also that the wretched cold/flu, that had allowed me to stay off work and twitter, also influenced my mood.
What has and still amazes me, is the intensity of connection that is possible on that medium. The effect of social media, is not of course the thing itself, people do talk of marriages breaking up, twitter romances etc., but the media is just the catalyst, the thing that does not change, is neutral to its uses.
So to explain and describe, a research of small samples by one observer participant, can throw up some tendencies of use, and some indicative trends, carve out an outline of an outline for a research project. So would the wooden approach go. Rather I think, some fiction, and embellishment or true beautiful stories, the range is considerable. So I will try to do something with the unfolding life on Twitter, keeping the identities confidential as I've been trained, that be-suits my own best standards anyway.
Watch this space!
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