1. Cherie Dargan—Facebook & Twitter “Grow up”
& in the news
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2. Cherie Dargan—Facebook & Twitter “Grow up”
1) Are we so obsessed with the web that we are isolating ourselves
from family and friends in the quot;real worldquot; in order to have a life
online?
2) Is the quick and easy interface of Twitter and Facebook encouraging
people to be even more self involved, posting the silly trivia of their
day?
3) Are features like the 140 character limit of Twitter and Facebook's
brief postings on the wall making us even more fragmented in our
thinking and communication style?
4) Will all of this quick communication make us more distracted, and
less able to focus on creating or reading/processing longer chunks of
text?
1) Engage people in discussing topics, sharing ideas,
interacting online (the Church in Seattle, WA)
5) Is the line between personal and professional--and public
2) Let people quot;followquot; others and get quick updates on their
and private--even more blurred by the use of Facebook and
activities and thoughts and daily routines (Rachel Maddow,
Twitter?
Rick Sanchez, Barak Obama, Joe Biden)
6) Shirky points out that the line is also blurring between 3) Give quick headlines and news (CNN, Courier, KWWL)
cyberspace and IRL, as people make plans on FB & Twitter to 4) Educate and support people (Weight Watchers)
meet up. He even suggests that it is changing the way that 5) Mobilize people to act (or vote, or buy, or show up--see
people make plans, as in “text me when you get done with your Clay Shirky's book)
meeting and we’ll meet up…” 6) Strengthen interpersonal relationships (and find out things
about your spouse that he/she would never tell you F2F—”Texas
Red Chili” incident)
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3. Cherie Dargan—Facebook & Twitter “Grow up”
Researcher danah boyd (did her doctoral dissertation on The Pew Internet Research Project
identity, teens and SNS (it’s posted online)
http://www.pewinternet.org/Media-Mentions/2009/Facebook-
http://www.danah.org/papers/ takes-strides-toward-Twitter-territory.aspx
Writer Lev Grossman. “Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies. “Time
Writer Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The power of
Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 organizing without organizations. Penguin Books, 2008.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1879169,00.html
http://www.shirky.com/ (his website)
Face Book In Reality - idiotsofants.com and BBC's The Wall.
http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/ (his book’s blog)
This video pokes fun at Facebook, and shows how silly it would be
Scott Simon speaks with NPR's Social Media Strategist Andy
in “real life” to have someone show up at your front door, asking if
Carvin about Face book's fifth birthday. Feb. 7, 2009 ·
you want to be their friend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrlSkU0TFLs http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10037732
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http://tumblr.com I will post the entire PPT on Googledocs.
http://twitter.com
I will also post a shorter one with only the
http://facebook.com
cartoons.
http://cherieedtech.tumblr.com/
Cherie’s Tumblr page
Cherie Dargan, cheriedargan@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/professorpost
Cherie’s Twitter page
http://twitter.com/MikeDargan
Mike Dargan’s page
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