Facebook Me

Posted on December 16, 2008
Filed under Social Networking and tagged email, facebook, inbox, socialmedia

This post has already been written on Twitblogs – a little app that allows you to post to longer messages, photos and videos to Twitter. It would be great if it had a cross-posting feature!

I just read an article about how social media is becoming the new inbox for the web. Check it out here. A couple of the things the author mentions that I highlighted were:
*that ‘Facebook Me’ is being used like ‘Google it’ and instead of email addresses people are exchanging social media information. Don’t worry about asking for someone’s phone number, just ask them if they are on Facebook.
*Social media is more effective than emails as it allows for more fluid conversation and if you can read status updates like ‘I got a new job’ or ’saw X movie last night and thought it was fantastic’ then there is no need for emails to be filling up inboxes.

The most important part of this article for me was the last bit where the author, Erik Qualman, states that even though consumers do not want to communicate via piles of emails, many businesses have not caught on to this. It just made me wonder what we are missing in education. How do our students WANT to be communicated with? What are we really missing? Would we be able to reach them more effectively if we communicated with them through their favoured social media outlets (as well as f2f) ? I suspect we could.

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2 Responses to “Facebook Me”

jarrod robinson on December 16th, 2008 8:24 am

I completely agree. I don’t find it suprising that only a small percentage of my student’s actually read their diaries or check their emails.However most of them rush home to jump on their social networks even though they have spent all day with the same people at school.The desire to connect with each other is so much greater than it was when i was at school and that was only 5 years ago. I feel this is the reason why our whole school based ning network i introduced for the kids has been so successful, it is reaching them on their level and they truly enjoy it. Great post Jess
Brian Barker on December 26th, 2008 11:09 am

As the “International Year of Languages” comes to an end, you may be interested in the contribution, made by the World Esperanto Association, to UNESCO’s campaign for the protection of endangered languages.

The following declaration was made in favour of Esperanto, by UNESCO at its Paris HQ in December 2009. http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=38420&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html

The commitment to the campaign to save endangered languages was made, by the World Esperanto Association at UNESCO’s Geneva HQ.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7vD9kChBA&feature=related