TWITTER

What I think of twitter?  Well I think it is a tool that is useful when communicating with other people but it has not quite caught on to become as popular as facebook yet.  Because it is not that popular it is hard for teenagers, like myself, to want to spend the time to use it frequently.  When I get on twitter I always find myself thinking that it is that same thing as facebook but all you can do is update your status.  I also sometimes think that twitter is not very good at marketing who you really are to the business world.  In lecture we were told that you can use it to branch out to future employers however I find it difficult to imagine that a random employer would really pay attention to a student in school just talking about what they are doing for the day.  With that being said I think that we need to learn how to use twitter more effectively.  Instead of just telling about what you are doing for the day I think that we should try to tell people about interesting sites that are similar to the job market that we are interested in.  If we show more of the kind of person we are by posting links to describe us and tell about our personality it would be far more effective than just updating our statuses. 

Twitter I believe is a tool and a distraction.  Today in class we were talking about time wasters, and this is just another form of them.  When I think of how much time I spend on facebook it makes me want twitter to not become as popular because I would be afraid that even more time wasting would be spend on twitter.  Personally I believe that technology has absorbed to much of our life and we depend on it to much.  I know that I certainly do and could not function with out my cell phone, computer, and facebook.

Finally I am glad that I was given the experience to try twitter out for two weeks but personally I believe that is all that I will be doing with twitter for a while.  Until twitter becomes a necessity in our society I do not think it will be of use to the younger generation that is so use to facebook, we have enough complaints when just one thing is changed on facebok (ex. see friendship) that I can not see us wanting to change an entire social network.  And as seen with facebook and Myspace there is only room for one popular social network and I for one hope it stays facebook!