I had already promised myself, for years, that I would never get a Twitter. My best friend was really into it, and always seemed to have better tidbits than me, but I tried to stick to my promise. One morning earlier this year, I gave in and signed up. Being in the more technology- savvy generation, it didn't take long for me to be very familiar with the site and the "tweeting" process. However, I soon learned just how public and available Twitter really is (more than Facebook) and had an issue in which I lost a job over my account. So, while they're may be ' trends', if you already know that much about Twitter, you're in too deep.
At one point or another since the age of sixteen I've had at least one blog going. I'm terrible at updating, and usually just abandon them, but I'm hoping to change that habit with the other blog I have attached to this account (and this one, of course). Whenever the word ' blog' is mentioned to my mom, and I'm around, she'll ask me what it is. I've always found it difficult to explain the entire concept to someone who hasn't heard about it before, even though it's so simple and all makes sense in my head. Then, when this assignment was announced in class on Tuesday, I realized that not that many people are familiar with the idea. Reading a blog and producing one are two rather different things. People aren't fans of reading, and even more people are not fans of having what they write to be online (at least, anything that's longer than a Facebook status). It'll be interesting to see how this develops for everyone through the semester.
But, we are expected to know all that goes on with a computer, we're the technology age. Ages ago, the only form of communication was by boat, and it would take six months. Now between various social networks, not to mention state of the art cell phones in which we can use these networks away from the computer, we can find out some news event faster than before. Sometimes, it's a bit scary to think of how far generations have developed.
