To tweet or not to tweet

I don't know if it's just me but it seems like Twitter has sort of skipped over our generation. The only people I hear talking about the latest tweets made on Twitter are my 11 year-old brother and various celebrities ranging from in their mid 20's to 50's. The majority of people my age, including myself, hardly even know how to use the new social networking phenomenon, let alone know what it's actual purpose is.

The basic gist that I've gathered over the past year or so is that you can compose short "tweets" about what you are doing, where you are, who you're with etc. at the present moment to other "tweeple" that are following you. An example from none other than the Twitter queen herself, Kim Kardashian:

Pure glam! So fun! RT @JasonBinn Wow. #Oscars! @JonathanCheban, @KimKardashian @iamjamiefoxxhttp://yfrog.com/h8vc1xpj

7:26 PM Feb 27th via TweetGenius
I can't even understand this past the first four words. It's crazy to see how Twitter has created an entirely new way for people to communicate with each other. I had to look up online what this short little tweet meant and not to my surprise, when I googled it, the first 3 pages of results were filled with countless websites outlining how to navigate and understand Twitter lingo (I didn't even bother going on to the fourth...)! I understand celebrities using Twitter as a means to keep in touch with their fans, but most tweets seem to be comprised of useless information that takes ten extra minutes just to decode. I now have a Twitter for this class but I don't think I will be tweeting anytime soon!
click here to see the plethora of online Twitter dictionaries.