Social networking

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.