I just recently read the article by Jeffrey R. Young entitled Forget E-Mail: New Messaging Service Has Students and Professors Atwitter. I am one person who is not prepared to forget about E-Mail just yet. In fact, I am still not what I would call a master of everything related to e-mail; but I am comfortable with it. From reading the article I do get the point the author is trying to make; twitter is an excellent way of balancing information overload. However, I am left wondering if a technological connected person is feeling overwhelmed, what hope is there for a rookie to technology like myself. I currently use e-mail for work and school and find that it serves its purpose just fine for me. Furthermore, the only thing I use my cell phone for is for making calls; I have never sent a text message or used it for twitter. That being said, I wonder if a guy like me is better off sticking to what I know as opposed to trying to stick to 140 characters. I guess I’ll never know unless I give it a try. Any advice for me in terms of giving twitter a try?
Thoughts about Twitter
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February 22, 2009 at 6:09 pm
For now I am going to stick with what I know. I am comfortable with e-mail and I can text (not fast), this was a big accomplishment for me. Twitter does sound interesting but you need time to learn it and unfortunatly I do not have any spare time these days.
February 23, 2009 at 3:18 am
Guy, if you want to give Twitter a try, let me know and I can give you some introductions and some ways to get started.
Here is a wiki (that is starting to get filled in) about Twitter for teachers. http://twitterforteachers.wetpaint.com/?t=anon There is not much there yet, but people are starting to work on it. I’d also try using Twitter with an application rather than the website alone. My favourite application is Tweetdeck, and you can download it for free.
I’d be happy to take you through it some time, let me know.