Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking service that allows you to post pretty much whatever you want as long as it is 140 characters long. You can also become a follower of someone elses tweets. You can use twitter for personal reasons or for professional reasons. You can limit your followers to your preferance or you can allow anyone to follow your tweets. Some people write about their every day lives. Others post more about professional information such as meeting times and businesss deadlines. Relatives, friends or complete strangers can keep up with your day to day life depending on what you post. I think it is a great way for distant relatives to keep in tune with what their family is up to. As a future teacher I think it is a great way for students to keep up with assignments and other class information. Obviously, if you are going to write personal info that you would not share with students in the classrroom you need to have a separate twitter for your friends to follow. Twitter can be great as long as it is used in a professional manner. I would use twitter to remind students about upcoming and current class work and anything that may be of use to them in the classroom. As far as using twitter for my own personal reasons, I'm not quite sure if I would be interested. I would have to choose who I would want to follow my twitter because it is TMI for strangers.