I have a Facebook account already that I use regularly so I went ahead and set up a Twitter and had so much fun with it! I even got distracted from my work that I should be doing, but I guess that's not really that hard to do. I set up my Twitter account and found some friends on there as well as some celebrities and education related accounts to follow. I found that using Twitter was very easy but pretty different from Facebook. I still do not really understand some of the posts that go back and forth on tweets but I will get there eventually. When I first got a Facebook account I was pretty lost with it as well.
As a future teacher I believe it is a good thing to know how social networking sites work but also to know to be careful with them. Most young teenagers have Facebooks now and there is a line educators should draw in having a Facebook and adding students and talking to them and such. But on the flip side, this could be a way of communication between the teacher and students instead of just giving them office hours if they need help. There is always a way to message your teacher. I do not think that Facebook is appropriate for classroom use because of what it is, social. Students should have their social lives outside of the classroom, not while you are trying to teach them. Tweeting can be a good way to follow other educators for yourself, but I do not think this site would be useful for educating students really. Both of these sites come in handy for staying in the loop but I really can't see any useful applications in the classroom with these sites.
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