Microblogging

As what Benjamin Franklin had pointed out, you may delay, but time will not. That's why most people in our generation have been living the "instant" lifestyle in  an attempt to catch up with the motion of the age. This instant mentality encompasses a wide spectrum, from the growing of fast food chains serving instant orders, to our penchant for becoming instant millionaires (lottery, reality TV contests with big pot money like Survivor, British Got Talent - you know the drill).

Engrossed in our workaholic tendencies, we tend to prefer things be done right away. In our current lifestyle, if there's a short cut, why take the long road? That's why when micro-blogging was introduced in the mainstream market, it became an instant hit.

It's like shifting from long memos to short post it notes that still carry the same instructions, only briefer. When writing blog posts in blogs became an ordeal to most people, the spotlight was turned to this new innovation called microblogging, which is, as the name speaks for itself, the "bite-sized" form  of traditional blogging.

Microblogging is a form of broadcasting, but the message you need to get across needs to be cramped up in a 200-character announcement. Unlike blogging which could give you the liberty to even conjure a novel-length single post, microblogging needs only the gist of what you need to  relay to other people - which is is a better recourse for this generation's setting.

It's how microblogging makes broadcasting something in a simple and concise manner that's been keeping it at par with any other social media networking sites. Twitter, one of the leading microblogging web page in the internet as of now, typically sparks the conversation by asking the basic question: What are you doing right now?

Simplicity is beauty, so a saying goes. And this time around, it's the shorter, the better.