Social Media Week Blog

Social Media Blog

Brian Seda

            There are a number of things that I learned during social media week. For this week I created a twitter account and I followed a variety of people on twitter. I also had to blog twenty tweets and I this was my first time every composing a tweet. I learned how fast information is spread through twitter and I also learned how you could find out news through twitter.

            I had a lot of different feelings towards my participation on twitter. Overall I thought that twitter is kind of waste of time except that you can find out some useful information on twitter. I thought that twitter is almost just like Facebook and I didn’t think there was too much of a difference. I think that I will continue to use twitter after creating a twitter account for social media week. I like that you can find out information of what is going around here on the Iowa State campus.

            Social media can help me accomplish my goals by letting me know all of the opportunities that there are here on campus. Twitter will make me more knowledgeable on events that I can go to that will give me a break from school and homework. Around the world twitter is being used as an outlet for businesses and professional sports teams to get their word out. It almost serves as advertising when businesses and sports teams tweet about the events they have going on. These tweets are read by thousands of people who are following their business. Twitter is a cheap way for businesses to quickly get the word out about a sale or upcoming event they are having.

            I was really surprised about how twitter can help you relax and serve as an outlet for you thoughts. I was also shocked about how news can spread on twitter and can play a role when it comes to disasters like the Mexico City gunmen. I was also surprised about how Facebook can actually be a negative and can lead to tarnished friendships. The last thing that surprised me was how you can look for jobs on twitter.

            Overall I thought that these articles gave me an insight to the variety of uses that twitter can provide. I learned a lot about how to use twitter and why twitter may be better then Facebook. I thought that social media week was fun and exciting to participate in. I will continue to use twitter in my daily life to follow my favorite athletes and sports teams.