By Kristin Biery
Today's lecture about Twittering really made me think about the transition the communication field is making. We are moving out of the boardrooms, off of conference calls and are instead sitting behind a computer screen. Although I am someone who loves text messaging and getting online—there is a time and a place for it. Websites like twitter, facebook, myspace, craigslist and other popular blog sites are becoming the norm for social networking and advancing careers.
Today in class we had a guest speaker who had over 15,000 followers on her twitter page. That’s ridiculous to me. I understand that by using the internet you can reach a broader group of individuals, but how genuine and sincere can the relationships be? There is only so much information I am willing to give out online and I am not very trusting to people who I meet on the internet.
We all watch the stories on Dateline and 20/20 about internet predators and unfortunately it has tainted my opinion. Don’t get me wrong, I have a facebook and today in class I signed up for a twitter page, however I hope that that is not the life line of my social network.
