Journal 5: Twitter

I’ve enjoyed using the social media such as Facebook and MySpace to stay connected with friends and family.  The fun part about these social networking sites is to creating a profile on to share with family and friends updates that are occurring with your life at this moment.  I like how on these social networking sites you can post pictures of events and posted them on your page, or even write an update by writing a status update to inform people what you’re doing.  When it comes to Twitter I don’t see the fun of having an accounting.  I think Twitter is just another way of texting messaging people, but you’re doing it on-line.  Recently, Twitter is now known as the social media sites that over uses hash tags.  For every post or even photo there has to be a hash tag next to each word to make that post or photo seems important.  With Twitter you constantly have to stay updated with tweets, and post tweets in order to stay active in the Twitter community.  I can see as why celebrities are constantly tweeting so they continue being in the spot life for their fans, and to stay current.

Having Twitter in the classroom would be beneficial in the classroom, but I believe that Twitter can be used in the middle/high schools and not in elementary schools.  At the elementary schools to stay connected with students I would have a class websites for students and parents to stay connected with me.  I also see that having Twitter in the classroom can also place stress on the teacher.  The teacher would have to be someone that is constantly checking the tweets of students on their phone or computer and would allow to have twenty-four hour access to students.  Also a teacher has to ensure that students are being protect from other harms that are on the Internet and have their accounts privates to others.