I'll admit, at first I was a little hesitant to make a Twitter. I used to have one that I used with a group of my friends at school. We all had tweets sent to our phones, and usually it was something like "dinner at 6" or "UMass hockey lost again". We used it as mass text messages. It got annoying after a while, and one day I logged on to deactivate my phone number. I realized I had about 500 followers/requests from people I didn't know (even with privacy settings), so I just decided to delete my account all together.
So, I made a new Twitter for this class, and at first, like I said, I was a little hesitant. Who would I follow? Who would want to follow my education tweets? My friends don't want to read my tweets about education, and I don't really want to read theirs about Charlie Sheen #WINNING. I've realize now, that's the point of Twitter. You read about what you want to read about. On FB people can't read what you are writing about and you can't read about them unless you accept each other. On Twitter, it's not really about connecting with WHO you know but connecting based on what you want to read about. Unlike my Facebook newsfeed, my Twitter isn't cluttered with people from 8th grade talking about the Oscars and their exams. Also, I used to use Twitter as a way to talk directly to my followers (all 15 of them lol) and FB to post on my friends' walls, but now I find myself just putting out a message for anyone to read, knowing the people following me are actually interested in what I am sharing, so that's new to me too.
Overall, I have to say, Twitter is far less awkward and far more beneficial than I expected. It's not like Facebook. Twitter is one of the tools I will definitely continue to use after this class.
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