The class cloud experience was exactly that for me; a
definite “experience”. Because this
class is the first time I have tried Twitter, I am not well-versed in using
it. I learn by doing and using social
media platforms, and this one is not one I have fallen in love with. I know that it is very popular and used by
many people, but I don’t have a need to share a lot of information to the
public, and those I want to share with I can text without a character limit,
and without having to come up with a hash tag or link to a blog post. I started by creating my first twitter post
asking a generic question about social media:
https://twitter.com/SherriDever/status/704525401125625856
I couldn’t decide who to send a second tweet to, and I
wasn’t exactly sure the correct way to do it, but it ended up being pretty
simple. I chose to send a question to
@mittromney but I never received any type of feedback. https://twitter.com/SherriDever/status/704530054621990912
I’m not sure if I really expected a response from Mr.
Romney, and quite honestly, I’m not even sure if that is his real twitter
address. Nonetheless, it gave me the
experience of sending a message to someone.
About a week after I opened my Twitter account, I noticed that I had
received a message from a friend of mine that I hadn’t talked to in a couple of
years. I felt bad, because I didn’t even
realize that they had sent me a message, and also because I wasn’t really sure
of how to use Twitter properly. But
through trial and error, I have been able to figure things out.
I still don’t use Twitter, other than for class assignments,
and when we all started tweeting Wednesday in the class cloud, I was extremely
out of my element. Everyone around me
was tweeting like crazy, laughing and having fun with it. I sat there for a minute not even sure where
to start. I was reading the tweets that
were posting, and trying to come up with something to say or someone to respond
to. I did manage to send a few tweets out,
and respond to some as well as shown in the following links:
Twitter, it seems to me, is a way to spout out what is on
your mind or currently going on. Most tweets I read are just
short opinions or funny quips. It
doesn’t seem like much useful information is shared, although my exposure to it
has been very limited. I would imagine
if I paid more attention to news media or sports tweets I would be much more
informed rather than entertained or appalled.
I know that I could actually use Twitter to report scores and information
to the club I work for concerning my team’s performance in games and in
tournaments. Reflecting back to the
class cloud experience, I didn’t really enjoy it, but thought it was
interesting when other organizations or people jumped in and started to respond
from outside the class. I still don’t
think I will ever be a big Twitter user unless I find a need for it, other than
class. I’m from an older generation—an
old dog trying to learn new tricks and apps.
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