RFF on Twitter

Twitter is like a super pared-down version of Facebook. All you can do is update your profile, and you only have 140 characters. Your profile is public and anyone can "follow you" which means that they can read your updates. Likewise you can follow anyone else. It's great for following trends and news, but rubbish for detailing your trip to the psychiatrist... I find it useful in my work as a teacher as I am networked with similarly minded teachers across the world, and so it might be useful here too.

You can post hyperlinks too, which means if you wrote a post here (for example) you could let all of your followers know about it. They could follow the link from there to here.

Cheers,
Jack.
 
Back in the day when my complete exposure to computers was ferrying around a dolly full of index cards for the mainframe. I thought it was a dead-end job.
 
35mmdelux said:
Back in the day when my complete exposure to computers was ferrying around a dolly full of index cards for the mainframe. I thought it was a dead-end job.
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when I started, world of computing had progressed to era of floppies :D I remember lugging from my fried a box full of 1.44mb floppy disks, just to get Visual Basic 4 installed to my Windows 95 PC ;)

http://twitter.com/jarnonevala (but its pretty idle)
 
maddoc said:
:D;)...

The good old times, when I had to write my emails on a IBM RS6000 (AIX system) using the ex-editor.:cool:
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:D I'll be honest, I started off with Windows ME, which would have made me stop using computers all together if it wasn't for Linux. I'm not into twitter btw, cause seriously, my productivity took a dive when I was introduced to RSS.

martin
 
Facebook was fun for about three weeks, as old schoolmates came out of the woodwork. Twitter, unless you work for a news-dispersal organization, is completely ridiculous. "Social networking," in general, is another indication of how narcissistic our U.S. culture has become. Everybody has something to say and we expect others to be interested.
 
Joe Vitessa said:
Facebook was fun for about three weeks, as old schoolmates came out of the woodwork. Twitter, unless you work for a news-dispersal organization, is completely ridiculous. "Social networking," in general, is another indication of how narcissistic our U.S. culture has become. Everybody has something to say and we expect others to be interested.
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I don't think you should be interested in what I say. I might be interested in what you say though...

I use Twitter for very specific purposes, mainly to promote and develop my class blog (I am a teacher - class blog here) and to get news and advice on technical stuff. You may not be interested in using it, which is no problem.

I thought it might be an easy way to tell people about new photos on the web, to link to photographers and their websites, and to keep in touch in a less formal way than a forum.

I take your point about the consumer culture and about some peoples' need to feel listened to, but these things are tools which you can use (or not) as you wish. One does not have to use these things in the manner you describe.

Cheers,
Jack.
 
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