This week’s activities revolved around using Facebook and Twitter. I have been using Facebook for some time so have actually already done the suggested activities eg I set up a group to coordinate a trip to Japan with friends which stopped ideas about where to visit being buried in emails (plus you can add photos there). I like using Facebook to share photos and have 21 albums so far. Also there are some very good applications which I have mentioned in the learning 2.0 group page on Facebook.
I set up a Twitter account last year but didn’t really use it much throughout the year. I made more of an effort this year and followed some more people and started sending a few tweets. However, I am still not a fan. I followed Jenny, one of our Learning 2.0 trainers who was tweeting from a conference. I would rather see a conference update in a blog instead of random little sentences popping up in my firefox browser which make it really hard to follow what is going on. I think Twitter is fine for people/organisations that want to send out a message to the public but for individuals it seems better to use the status updates on Facebook.
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July 8, 2009 at 5:17 pm
ngould1
Are the BB housemates not twittering yet??
July 17, 2009 at 10:41 am
Katharine Thompson
Karen, I feel the same about Twitter. Most of it just seems like pointless chat to me. And the whole 140 character thing is really annoying. I can see it’s usefullness in certain situations and organisations- if you need to update and communicate quickly with a group of people, but I think there are other ways of doing that. And the fact that the media is obsessed by it right now gets on my nerves! Facebook is fun though. I’m an occasional user and tend to use it to catch up with what others are doing rather than add stuff about myself. I think the correct tecchie term for this is ‘lurker’ which is somewhat worrying! Katharine