To tweet or not to tweet...

So in PR class this week, we were told to set up an account on Twitter. I was apprehensive about this and I sort of still am.

I had a Twitter account earlier this year but ended up not really using it because I found it added nothing beneficial to my life. I am more of a facebook person where you can more directly interact with people. Twitter seemed kind of pointless and creepy to just leave little updates about what your doing or whatever. I did not see why people used it and felt like they should just pick up the phone and call or text a friend instead of being all weird and using Twitter.

Once our instructor Melanie ran through the benefits that communicators like her find from Twitter, I am beginning to see how it could be more beneficial. The key is to realize that Twitter is about more than just following celebrities. It can be used to communicate and network with lots of beneficial people in fields that we may want to enter in the future. For example, we could follow a journalist like Bartley Kives and learn what it is like to be covering City Hall directly from its tweets. I have to admit thats kind of cool.

With that said, I still sort of use Twitter mainly to learn about what Lil Wayne, Shaq and Bob Saget are up to. I want to make this blog post sound good and say I now see the light and think Twitter is an amazing tool but I don't know. I think that maybe I'm too much of a traditionalist but all of these Web 2.0 forms of media kind of weird me out. I don't feel any need to tweet that I am "eating 4 chicken fingers for lunch" or even update how my school is going like some people do. I would rather call, text or talk to someone in person about this. Maybe thats just me.

I am sure that as I use Twitter more, I will begin to see more of its benefits and learn how it can be a super useful tool for us as CreComm students. With that said, I am proud to say that I never plan to let Twitter replace the value of real people talking to eachother. I agree with my classmate Jon Braun in his saying that it kind of takes away the realness and rawness of people. I don't want that to happen to me, or my friends.

Either way, I am stoked to see what John Stamos will be up to next. Until next time...tweet tweet.