Create: Microblogging

To continue with my posts on Digital Labs that I recently learned but didn't know it, I am going to talk about micro-blogging! At first this sounds a bit strange, how do you get smaller than the little snippets of thought I post to my blog already? Apparently through services such as Twitter and Facebook, where you again create profiles and connect with people, only your "posts" are limited to 140 characters (for Twitter). It has been fun to create these pages, and I have found that there are actually people and organizations on these sites the I love to keep track of! (The Onion, for example)

When you create a Twitter account you can have an awesome homepage too!

Twitter is a fairly easy service to use, like most services it has a simple interface for first time users, and works best with a Google account. (Such is the tyranny or monopoly of Google!)


Steps:

1. Create an account!

2. Put in your interests to find people like you!

3. Find your friends already already on Twitter!

4. Start your Tweeting!

 Tweeting falls directly under the Digital Culture ideas of blogging, micro-blogging, and sharing. And for as much as people use these types of services for seemingly useless things (really? does the world HAVE to know what you ate for breakfast??) in reality it is all preserving a history. A history that will be preserved for generations, because once something goes on to the internet, it goes viral, and never comes off. What will the people of 50 years think of our conversations? Who knows, but they will know more about us and our lives because they can see them. Didn't you ever wonder how people in Shakespeare's day really spoke to one another? Maybe if they had been tweeting it we would know!