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| Gosier, J. (2008). Twitter Logo [Image]. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/ photos/ww4f/238791513 |
Before I took this class, I had never used twitter. I thought twitter was only a website for procrastinating and that the only information I could get on twitter were the ingredients of my friends’ dinner or what they were doing at every second. I love my friends, but I think there are more meaningful things to do than using my time to read their daily records and trivial things. However, after I registered on twitter, I realized that twitter actually had more valuable advantages than I initially thought. The values of twitter are dependent on how you use it. Instead reading the detailed daily life of my friends, I could actually search for some professional and academic information. By simply typing hash tag and key words in twitter search, I can find lots of information relevant to food companies and dietitians. Following these websites allows me to know what events are happening in the food business and what dietitians are currently doing. Twitter also brings us to a very close distance to researchers and professors whom we are not able to see in real life because we can see many of them discussing and critiquing their fellow peers. Twitter provides us with useful and up-to-date information through the functions of hash tags and name searching. The strongest power of twitter is its ability to quickly spread the newest and up-to-date information to millions of people. By posting 140 characters on twitter, all our followers can see our posts in one second. In this way, a pop star or athlete can make his or her millions of followers aware of things about them in a second. This situation also provides big potential for business companies to promote goods on twitter. On the other hand, twitter also has some negative aspects. As there is too much information on twitter, it can take a lot of time to find the most useful information. While we may not intend to read a lot of tweets, it is easy to be drawn in by interesting information, resulting in a lot of time being wasted on twitter. If you want to learn more opinions about twitter, please check my classmate Stephanie Nash’s post.
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| Zhu,C. (2005).Blogger.Com Logo [Image]. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/ photos/colinzhu/54784620/ |
Another social media tool we have been using throughout the term is a blog. We have been commenting on the class blog for the entire term and have written five blog posts and commented on 5 fellow classmates' blogs. Unlike twitter, blog posts do not have a word count limitation so we can write anything, in any form. Therefore, this new communication form has broader usage than twitter. Commenting on blogs allows the exchange of ideas between authors and readers. Authors can gather helpful suggestions and different opinions from both friends and people around the world. Without the limitation of area, blogs have a broader usage than traditional face to face communication style. In class, I learnt that we could find many science journals on blogs. However, these journals may be written by journalists or others who are not scientists. In this case, I would not rely on blogs as a source for writing a paper. Since libraries have databasees for publications, it is more efficient to use library sources.
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