Social Media

I am on two social networking sites, Facebook and Twitter. I prefer Facebook because I know how to use it. I have never really gotten into Twitter. I do not even really do a lot on Facebook, I mainly use it as a way to share pictures with friends or like things to get updates.

Virtual worlds is usually a computer-based simulated environment, through which users can interact with one another. In the one article by Tutton, it talks a lot about using virtual worlds for work meetings. Instead of meeting face to face they can all come together and meet on a network. The article also mentions that they have had, "A whole range of environments, from auditoriums and collaboration pods to social areas where the avatars could pick up a beer around a log fire, or walk around a sculpture park and talk." I think that would be pretty fun and it would probably be more exciting interacting with them in more of a game setting because it is better then sitting in a meeting. People may actually pay attention more.

I also found the article by Nicole Saidi very interesting. She mentions that, ""He was able to use chat rooms and soon realized that people used symbols to express themselves: the smiley signs, the angry signs, hug signs, etc., to enhance the text. He went on to say that subconsciously his brain was learning about communication from these sessions of chat." I think this is a really good tool to help those who do have certain disorders. It is good that technology is helping with that.

I am not really sure what I would like to be in my virtual world.