Monday, January 18, 2010
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EIR DES T02 students discussed at length about the benefits of Tweeter, its downsides, future directions and implications for education and research. Several viewpoints were discusssed. Some concluded that people use Tweeter mainly as a social network tool to reach out to their friends, some use it to advertise about their work and others use it to de-stress. Tweeter is popular mainly due to its flexibility and ease of use to reach out to the masses.
However, the students noted that too much Tweeting can prevent people from connecting to one another face-to-face - humans can end up isolated & entangled in their own digital web. Students concluded that Tweeter's future lies in its potential for professional purposes like commercial advertisement of works and networking amongst professionals.
Contrary to my belief that young people are all connected to Tweeter just like MSN and Facebook, I found out from this class that most of them do not like to tweet. I think that for someone to use Tweeter productively they have to use it to suit their purpose either socially, personally or professionally. I reflected on my own challenge of keeping up in updating my tweets. Since using it a few months ago, I have begun to love Tweeter for its simplicity and flexibility to enable me to reach out to my students and other professional network of friends who are constantly updating me with good leads to resources to help me enhance my professional life.
Labels: Twitting Away with Different Views
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