Post #11

Overall, to be honest this semester I have not really used twitter. I will say I learned plenty more about it, seeing as I had no idea of it before. I see the uses but I am not particularly a fan of it. I understand how to get on there. I learned how to follow people, watched people follow me. I made up a status and followed channing tatum. I also used twitter to connect to the store subway to get secret codes to enter to win. I also looked a few times at posts for the class. My experience with twitter is not much, but enough to understand the concrete nature of it.


Honestly, after this class my twitter will sit idol as it has been lately. I think twitter more as an easy stalking tool. It allows people to constantly update the world on what they are doing. Facebook and myspace have statuses but they have other things, and not everyone constantly changes their status. On twitter it all seems to be about updating your followers on what you are up to and honestly I think it is pointless in that nature. I could care less what people are doing every hour. So i'm not planning on using it in other contexts. The only exception would be like the one mentioned above, in a matter of a sweepstakes or something I would consider it.


I do not think of twitter as a useful educational tool, or a tool at all. I feel as though if it was used in school it should only be in upper high school with students well accustomed to the computer and those who should know how to use the computer properly and safely. Twitter can open up the users to a lot of the real world, which is not necessarily the best. Twitter can be an easy way for a teacher to communicate, but then again so is the phone or email. I think twitter is not worth the risk. I think it could be fun to use for a scavenger hunt or to follow your favorite celebrities but not as a teaching tool.