Prior to this semester, I already had a Twitter account. I use Twitter frequently as it helps me stay in touch with friends at other colleges and back home. Also, it allows me to keep current with the news -this is important to me since I don't have a tv in my dorm, so I don't really know what's going on in the real world. These other uses for Twitter are helpful and they really do demonstrate why the technology is so useful.
This semester I did not tweet that much as I have been so busy with school work and other activities. It is nice to receive the Twitters on my phone because I know that if I had to go to a website to check up on people, I would just go to Facebook instead -the convenience of receiving text messages from certain people is very nice.
I don't think that Twitter really has a place in the education setting as I feel it would be more of a distraction to the students than a helpful study tool. As far as teachers sending out reminders for when assignments are due and so forth, there are other websites such as Blackboard and the class websites that can deliver this information. I think that students would take advantage of Twitter technology at school and use it to possibly invite people to parties, make fun of classmates and do other things that have nothing to do with enhancing their learning.
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