Twittermania?!

Me writing this blog, me using twitter: I all blame it on the course Media use in organizations that I am following this semester. Last years I watched the hype around everyone writing blogs and twittering about every little thing they experienced. I consider myself as a modern girl, who can handle technology and is pretty good in working with computers but blogging and twittering was never my cup of tea. So, now i am forced. Well not really, but i really want to pass this course.

I have to admit, now I am a bit settled and i understand the basic principles of blogger.com and Twitter I kind of like it. Still, I am surprised with this Twittermania, as I call it. There are thousands of people who are twittering about the most silly things, like doing groceries, going to sleep, having a drink. Why? Why do people want the world to know everything and, more importantly, why do they think there are people interested in this? It could be my insecurity but I don't feel that people, even my friends, would really want to know when I am going to the toilet or when I am having breakfast. It just not seems interesting.

Nowadays, Twitter is not only used by people in their private lives, even companies are using it. I investigated some background information and googled a bit and found out that companies are using Twitter for a large number of different purposes. Update customers about company deals, offer customer support, to post company news and further on. Of course, I see that it could be useful, but isn't every option already available on the company website? Why use Twitter? When I want to know something about a product, or get help, I first go to the website to find information. I would certainly not search on Twitter for the account of the company. In my opinion, using Twitter for this purposes is useless. For me it has a negative influence on the image of a company. It makes the image look cheap and the companies are really trying to be trendy. Why? What is wrong with just a website? Why following this hype?

But that is just my opinion ;)