Tweet-War in ethics of communication

Tweet-War arises in the certain circumstances where there parties in a social media called twitter blurting out an offensive and allude other party. Most of tweet-war happens due to immature and irresponsible comments by certain people. Without going out of topic, communication in social media should be controlled under the freedom of information and freedom of speech, as both of it are taking parts in communication and social media as medium.

Tweeting is one of many ways to communicate in cyber communication we have nowadays. Most of people actually depend on this, as there are many social media in internet, we come out with a question why twitter becomes one of the most uses social media in internet yet the most dangerous social media in internet? Million people come over to twitter from facebook as they find twitter is simpler than facebook, just like what has happened when people migrating from Friendster. Twitter is actually giving out challenge on how to communicate with only 140 characters while facebook is giving out freedom to write with many characters. Even with the challenge, people still survive themselves in twitter and even more the 140 characters become the start of a war.

Some people might have idea that twitter is more private than facebook. In fact that even your account is private but once your tweet is being re-tweet, the entire world would know what’s going on. As Howie Severino stated “In twitter, the world is your audience”, like a flashlight an issues could spread as fast as it is a tweet war could possibly happen.

Tweet-war is not only happening among the citizen (netizen) but also between the celebrity even politicians. The saddest thing is when a tweet-war happens to politicians or celebrity; they could not control their emotion and keeping the war-on-fire. As a citizen, disappointment and confuse us might feel; as we see them as a good role model and of course they must be good in ethics of communication (as they are the mouth of citizen to the government institutions). Celebrities’ tweet-war are the most wanted by the citizen, they find it amusing to see.

Generally speaking, people should have been aware about ethics in communication (as we communicate everyday) specifically in cyber-world. Communicating through social media become the trend and lifestyle for people but we need to be aware that the message from sender might be received differently by the receiver. A very general ethics in communicating such as respect other people opinions, using appropriate diction, respect the work of other people and the most important is not to butting in to other people problem. Last but not least, let us be a good netizen as now we live in advance world where both virtual and real can help and work out together.