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Language, either spoken and written, is a form of communication. One tool for Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) is Twitter. It forces users to communicate with very short messages--no more than 140 characters; spaces between words are counted as characters. Twitter is not for those who prefer to use grammatically correct sentences, in order to avoid misunderstandings.

Another CMC tool is Facebook. My disappointment with the Facebook's interface is described at

http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowals ... t_fbk.html

Am I the only one who is often lost in navigating Facebook's pages, and who does not like short (nearly telegraphic) notifications posted by Facebook robots? I am fully aware that CMC is very useful. But I also see its negative effects. Comments will be appreciated.

Ludwik Kowalski

http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/life/intro.html

For what it's worth, I pretty much hate both Twitter and Facebook. For business reasons, I've repeatedly tried to use both for years, and every time I discover I'd rather die penniless than spend anymore time in their interfaces. I've designed net interfaces for 20 years, so the problem isn't that I'm a computer novice.

All that said, the huge popularity of these sites with others is indisputable, and I have to bow to that.