Tuesday, July 7, 2009
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I define social networking as keeping up and meeting ohters online. to me for this to occur there must be an exchange in messages. When i am socializing i mainly use facebook though I have a myspace. I read some articles today and I find that I am neutral when people are on their social networking sites I just dont care. i however have not gotten into the bandwagon with twitter i just dont see the point. Twitter is all about "generating crowds"wherever and whenever. business weekly
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I agree with what you say about "generating crowds". It seems to me that Twitter was created for a different purpose but now it is more used as a marketing tool or an avenue to promote ideas, causes or agendas and get large numbers of people taking about them which evolves sometimes into movements.
ReplyDeleteI am not a twitter fan either.... but I have nothing against it because it seems to work for some people.
ReplyDeleteYou've got a good distinction here between "exchanging messages" and "generating crowds" -- there's something VERY different going on in each of those situations: different purposes, different discourses, different exigencies, and the like. Good dichotomy to hang on to as we move forward into the paper, I think.
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