Twitterpated - Thing 12

It's been 3 weeks since I've worked on the NT23 and I've totally forgot what I did with Thing 11 - Instant Messaging. I can't even find the profile and avatar I set up. I'm going to chalk that up to "I'm not going to use it anyway" and not pursue it. I still don't have a cell phone and it seems like it would just be further interuptions to my work to have it open on my desktop. Given that I am going to choose to not set up a Twitter account for the same reasons. I think this training is great, but what happens to all the stuff that gets set-up and is never used. It just seems like I am just clogging up the Internet with trash. I wonder what percentage of stuff out there can be deleted. Just think how often you click on a link and it goes nowhere.

Having kept up with various blogs through the recent ALA conference it was obvious that Twitter was being heavily used by participants. Twitter allows individuals to participate in history (look at the recent elections in Iran), it shows that innovation can happen anywhere, it offers many-to-many communication, it is interactive in that it allows consumers to become producers of information, and allows news to be reported as it happens (as in the recent earthquake in China).

Despite my blog title I am not Twitterpated (i.e. confused by affection or infatuation) by Twitter. Confused -yes. Infatuated, no.

Thing 11 - Not so instant messaging

I signed up on the Yahoo web browser. That is what I use at home. My husband and I have a combined account so his name (Milburn) shows up. I created an avatar for me, but she doesn't look like me (only in my dreams). I went with their so called "plus size" models, but she doesn't even come close. I did both the video and online tutorial. I was sorry to see that you can't do photo sharing or file sharing through the web browser. I also studied the acronym dictionary.

Now I guess I wait to see if anyone IMs me.

http://www.messenger.yahoo.com/web/

USER NAME (I am not so sure if this is it): beauzo@flash.net or rsbeauzo

Please send me a message so I can finish this assignment!

I will close with one acronym I knew before IM. As Tigger would say "TTFN."