In the past, I’ve spent a lot of time using social media. I think that probably the form of social media that I’ve been on the most was Facebook and I did use Twitter for quite a while as well. Facebook was always the easiest way for me to reach my friends, especially the ones who had moved to the other side of the world. It made things a lot more personable in a sense, since I could tag them in posts and I could take a look at the pictures they were posting so I felt as though I was involved in their lives. Quite honestly, as of recently, I’ve become a bigger Facebook addict and find myself regularly checking the news feed for any interesting updates.
In terms of Twitter, I didn’t use it much on my end (in terms of tweeting anything myself) but I did follow a lot of people. Since I used to play a lot of video games, I was interested in watching pro players’ game play and to a certain extent, what they were doing with their time as a sort of mini ‘celebrity’. By staying informed through their tweets, I was able to keep track of the times they were playing. So, I didn’t use Twitter for the interpersonal interaction; rather, it was simply a means of keeping in touch with the on-line community with the games that I played.
I haven’t used HootSuite or Netvibes but would be interested in using it for class!
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It might be worth considering using hyperlinks in your text. A photo or graphic from the Creative Commons is always a nice way to amplify your blogposts.
Let me know when you decide on HootSuite or Netvibes (or some other aggregator such as Feedly). Dean