Reactions to Twitter/Facebook

I cannot say I was shocked by most of the response from my fellow students. We almost all use Twitter and Facebook in very similar ways. Facebook is the more obvious choice due to its longer existence. It is an accepted means of communication. It is a never ending social gathering in a virtual world! My fellow bloggers seem to use Facebook for many of the same reasons: staying in contact with friends, sharing pictures or using it to find support for an issue or cause. Facebook is an alternative form of entertainment that continuously is changing, for the good and the bad. Jovan mentioned in his blog how he felt the alterations were changing Facebook for the worse. The complexities that have been added make it difficult to operate and he would rather something more usable.  There are still many reasons why people use Facebook and my classmates targeted some of the main points.

Twitter for most of the bloggers felt it to be a more open and public form of communication. It was either a discussion forum or a source for news and articles. Amalia mentioned that her primary reason for using Twitter was for "finding articles, links, pictures, websites..." It seemed that everyone was a pretty active member of both social media outlets, using them daily. I am intrigued to see how this class will infuse the minds of myself and my classmates!