The online Flutter video on youtube is a mockumentary about the idea of our world trying to condense websites like twitter even smaller than normal. The origins of these blog websites started with normal blogs where people could expell their inner feelings or thoughts to a group or observers, typically friends and aquaintances. That evolved into facebook where people could update statuses to tell in a short setting how they are feeling or doing, show a video, or yell about something that upset them. Then life got shorter. Twitter began. Twitter has turned into a microblogging phenom, in which, people update their every movement to people who, probably, could care less if they saw a mud puddle in the shape of Jay Leno's face or suddenly stepped on a pinecone that made a loud "crunch" noise. The video flutter mocks this idea by showing a new website that is intended to make microblogging event shorter for those who don't have enough time to even read the updates. Twenty-six characters and your post is done.
This symbolizes America's new view of technology and our attention spans. We have progressively gotten more impatient and our attention spans have shrunk. We want information in the quickest, most concise way possible. The time it takes to tweet is under a minute, but the time for a "flap" is probably a few seconds. Where is the line between necessity and excessiveness?
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