Tweet backs 19

"I had not heard of Twitter before this class and at the beginning the hole idea seemed a little over the top to me, this is not to say that I don’t think this site is still internet overkill but at least I have a better understanding of it now. For our class, I mainly used Twitter instead of e-mail. If I ever had a question that needed to be answered in a timely fashion, I knew that if I put it as my status then many people would answer it. This became very useful especially late at night when the professors are sleeping and the night-owl students are the only ones that can help me. It was also useful because I didn’t know any other students in the class, so simply calling them up and asking them was out of the question. I didn’t use Twitter as a way to keep people updated on my daily status. I found this to be pointless because, like I said earlier, I don’t know anyone in the class and I had no interest in letting them know what is going on in my life.
Twitter did very little to enhance my interaction with my peers, but I am hesitant to say that it impeded it either. I can see how people could use this to make friends, but I was not surprised to see that our class did not use it to get to know each other better. Since we all had user names that were different from our real names, it was difficult to put a face to a comment. It made it feel less like a class, rather more like an online meeting place for questions to be asked and answered. I feel like everyone in the class looked at this as strictly a class activity and were very hesitant to use it to learn more about each other and to make friends."