Halle Foss

ltulgren:

After reading this article one passage stood out and will not leave me. The passage is about how teens code their messages and hide their true message. I did not have a Twitter account before this class and still don’t know a lot about how it works, but do people really do this? I have never heard about  this before reading the article. So I guess my question is do people (teens) really do this?

I didn’t have a twitter before this class either, but status updates on Facebook are similar. I think that people “code their messages” almost unknowingly. By posting an inside joke to a friend, only the two (or possibly more) people involved know what it truly means. All anyone else can do is assume. Of course, the person posting obviously knows only a few people will understand an inside joke, but the majority of the time I don’t think people go to post thinking “how can I rephrase this so hardly anyone knows what I’m talking about”. That would practically defeat the purpose of posting altogether in my opinion.