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Twitter this week was largely uneventful. Posted a few tips here and there, commented (r/t’d) some of my colleagues’ work, and posted some animal gifs. Sounds like a typical tweeter’s day! But overall, a wonderful way to put a cap on the Twitter experience for Writing 60.

Twitter, when used appropriately for educational purposes, is an absolutely phenomenal tool. It allows users to accrue knowledge by following accounts that provide research and articles of note. Additionally, it allows users to get in contact with active researchers, through the use of direct message, or through scouting down their email on their page and messaging them there. Either way, Twitter has a variety of use cases for education that help advance knowledge in any given field of study. Prior to our experience here, I did not believe that social media could be anything but a distraction, but I was proven wrong, as I testified above. However, I will not continue to use Twitter following my experience in this class. I see it more as a distraction than anything really useful (to me at least). To those able to view Twitter as only a knowledge tool, more power to you. However, I get distracted by funny animal gifs, heated political discussion, and the latest disaster to happen today in my feed. It’s just too much stimulation for my tiny brain.

This shall be my last post to this blog. It’s been nice knowing you, the person reading this! Best of luck in your future endeavors.