Honestly, I think the internet that keeps me going in life. I genuinely can’t comprehend how people functioned before the creation of the internet (especially social media.) But, before turning this into a “Gen-Z” love letter to modern technology, let me give my thoughts on the question at hand: “Does Twitter seem more like a letter, a telephone conversation, a newspaper, a public speech, or a television broadcast?”
Without coming off a cliche with a typical lawyer/law student answer, I think it’s a mixture of things. I believe it’s a combination of a newspaper, a public speech, and a television broadcast. Like a newspaper, Twitter users can enter the app and instantly receive an update on everything happening in the world, both locally and abroad. It’s a public speech because the platform allows pretty much everyone (unless banned) to broadcast their thoughts and beliefs through their tweets to a vast audience. And it’s a television broadcast because, unlike a typical newspaper, you can get rapid updates on ongoing events in real-time, like that of a news broadcast. The same could be said for the Web for the same reasons.
Email, on the other hand, is just like a letter, the only difference being that it is electronic instead of handwritten and cannot be destroyed. It’s a communication between two or more people that go back and forth without the general public knowing.
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