What can I say about my week of Twitter experience? That it was really fun, and I learned a lot about social media all the while taking away something meaningful from the whole experience? Not necessarily. While this was my first time using Twitter, and I was a little bit excited about creating a Twitter account; I felt that I didn't ever really have time to "tweet". To be quite honest, I'm not even sure I tweeted 20 times. Maybe my life just isn't that interesting, and that's how pathetic I am. Maybe it's because I have had a facebook for much longer, which has become my primary social media account. And maybe, it might be because no one person I was following had anything cool to talk about or anything interesting that pertained to my life for me to reply to. Whatever the reason may be, it just didn't fit into my life.
All that being said, I do understand that there are certain advantages to having a Twitter account. It does establish connections with new people that you may not have known before. This enables you to gain information about people that are of a particular interest to you. It's also a great way to put yourself out there and potentially get a job. I particularly like the fact that it allows to say what's on your mind. You can say speak your mind and let others know of your opinion without any real repercussions. In other words, it's a good way to talk to trash or bash someone if you're a coward.
For what it's worth, I like the idea of trying new things and expanding my horizons. I think it's a good way of putting yourself on the market and letting others know you're out there. Perhaps once I'm out of college I will be more inclined to use my Twitter account for business purposes. For now however, it was more of a hit and miss.
http://twitter.com/jacob_a_lace
http://www.balkhis.com/twitter/25-reasons-why-someone-should-join-twitter
I agree i just didn't really fit into my life either
ReplyDeleteNice post Jacob. I'm glad you could find the benefits in it even though you didn't necessarily like it. Just be careful because there can be repercussions for anything you post, just like on other social networking sites. I'm glad you were able to "expand your horizons" though. :)
ReplyDeleteNice post! I enjoy reading your posts because they are so humorous! I agree with many of the points you said!
ReplyDeleteGood arguments. I would have to agree that the lifestyles we have are different than those who truly benefit form twitter.
ReplyDeleteGood points! It seems like Facebook is brought up a lot and there is really no way to replace it. Twitter comes no where close to Facebook.
ReplyDeleteI didn't think I was going to get to 20 tweets either but last minute I tweeted multiple times.
ReplyDeleteThat was a well rounded summarization of the good vs evil aspects of Twitter. I much enjoyed.
ReplyDeleteYes twitter can be good and bad... just depends how you use it.
ReplyDeleteI found it hard to tweet 20 things, without tweeting about random things. Maybe when were older Twitter will come into use for us.
ReplyDeleteI thought doing the tweets was not too hard just takes time when you could be doing other things.
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