Sunday, October 31, 2010

Twitter!!!!!!

This experience with Twitter was something very new to me.  Before getting my own for this class, I had heard a lot about it and "tweeting" but I had never even thought about getting one.  I heard that it was a social media networking tool that was something where you would just update and write a status about what you were doing or thinking or anything you wanted to say.  I have a Facebook and I rarely even change my status on there.  I guess I just figured that it would be a waste of time changing it both on Facebook and Twitter.
During this experience with Twitter I wouldn't say that I disliked it a lot, I would just say it is something that I don't know if I will continue.  I do not have Internet on my phone so I have to log-in on the computer and that takes up time as is so I think I will stick to Facebook for my status updates.
I must say though that I did enjoy looking at what everyone else was tweeting about and the fact that someone can post a URL or a link to something interesting.  I liked keeping up with other Hixson students as well as Iowa State and I was able to write either what was on my mind,  a reply back to someone else or writing some of my favorite quotes.  I am also a huge music person so I always seemed to tweet about songs I was either listening to at the time that seem to distress my life, or artists that I absolutely love like Jason Aldean! :]  Today, I also starting following Justin Bieber. That may be weird to some people but it's really not :]  But, that is another reason why I like Twitter.  You can follow celebrities and see what they are doing on a day-to-day basis and stay in touch with them.

My profile: http://twitter.com/#!/kelleyjamison
Assigned reading website:  http://www.balkhis.com/twitter/25-reasons-why-someone-should-join-twitter/


6 comments:

  1. I agree that it is cool that you can follow celebrities. Twitter is the only way of doing that.

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  2. I definitely know how awesome it is to follow favorite celebrities, I have Blake Shelton and Brad Paisley...it's really cool to see what they say and read Blake's jokes. I do think that Twitter almost requires internet on a phone just because not everyone has a laptop or computer near them at all times, so I agree with you.

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  3. I felt that it was pretty time consuming too. It was kind of cool to keep up with other classmates, but I doubt if I will make it a point to log on to Twitter again just read other peoples' quotes and such. Facebook does the same thing, so I would rather just keep to one social networking site.

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  4. I can see why you didn't really have time for Twitter being that you couldn't tweet from you phone. I did all my tweets from my phone and I couldn't have finished the assignment without my phone. It just takes too much time I don't have and it sounds like that kind of happened to you.

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  5. I would have to say if I didn't have my phone or my iPod, I wouldn't be updating my status much at all. I could see where it would be a hassle when you are required to do 20 tweets in a week and the only way you can do it is by being at the computer with time on your hands.

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  6. I agree, the I think the only reason I would stay on Twitter would be to follow a celebrity, it's just so cool to say that you have that connection. Wow, after saying that I feel like a total stalker! Another example of Twitter being too stalker-esk.

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