Twitter

In creating a twitter account I learnt how to talk to people and how to create a “hash tag”.  It is when you add at the end of a statement something that is a general theme or topic involved. You can share where you are, who you are with and what specifically you are doing as long as it is under 140 characters. My opinion of twitter is that it is too much, over the top of what needs to be shared. It allows people to know your location and what you are doing at every second of the day. It is very personal and does not give any privacy.  It also allows you to also see what others are doing and you can get caught up in other peoples lives. It disconnects emotion and the social aspect of communication.

The one way that twitter could be something of use is when there is breaking news that needs to be shared worldwide. It can get information out quickly as long as it is very short. It is very different from blogging because of the limitation of how much can be written. It allows only short form of what has happened where blogging can go into full detail of the events. Blogging can be a very personal thing and also very informative where twitter is neither.

Overall, I believe that there are too many social networking sites to choose from when one could do it all.