http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008782994_milbank25.html

I wasn’t really aware what Congress was doing on Twitter until our last class on Thursday. When our guest speaker showed us the website, I have to say I was suppressing the strong urge to laugh. Some of the “twitterings” of the members of Congress were pretty hilarious. The fact that John McCain is posting things about the sports games he’s watching and his opinions about other members of Congress highly amuses me.
This article talks about Obama’s address on Tuesday night and the fact that his audience was Twittering on their phones instead of listening. This is an example of both the growing prominence technology in our lives and the increasing rudeness of society. We all text in inappropriate places, class, family dinners, church. The politicians present at Obama’s speech are no different then the college students texting their friends in their lecture class. In the days before blackberrys and wireless internet on phones, people would get bored and pass notes or doodle. There’s no way to force our politicians to pay attention when our president speaks, but now hopefully they will be more stealth when twittering.
I think that these members of Congress aren’t familiar with technology and don’t realize who all is reading their Tweets. Because the current young generation has grown up talking on AIM and having facebook and xangas, they seem to be more aware that everyone can and probably is reading what they are posting. By the time kids are in middle school now a days they usually have an awareness of internet privacy and accessibility.