Thursday, October 10, 2013
Destructive Social Media
Yesterday I attended the drag queen bingo that was presented by LGBTQ services for coming out week. One addition they had this year that was different was TweetFall. This program allows users to live-tweet an event by hash-tagging their post. For example, yesterday's event hashtag was #SabinCMU. If the user's tweets are not private, then they will be displayed from most recent at the top. This was a really cool thing to see. However, I noticed one major pitfall. Some people in the room became destructive with their social media. Tweets were becoming inappropriate or conversational between friends. This detracted attention away from the proper meaning of the program. It was not being utilized at this even for people to make inappropriate comments. Rather they were expected to ask questions of Sabin. I think this is a prime example of how quickly a collaborative community can stray away from the actual purpose.
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This was one of the reasons I stopped using twitter. I would be following people and get informed every time something was going on, and half the time the conversation would be irrelevant to who i was following or become a personal converstation that I had no interest in reading through.
ReplyDeleteI do like it when shows or events do the live-tweeting. It is a great way to spread the word about what is happening. Having the negative tweets is going to happen with anything which is a shame.
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