Thing #18 Facebook and Twitter

I have been on Facebook since spring of 2010 and Twitter since spring 2012.  I don't put a whole lot of time into either one.  I frequent them about once a week or at least twice a month for about 10 minutes at a time.  I put a lot of pictures on my Facebook page.  Sometimes I post pictures to Twitter via Instagram.  I apply the Golden Rule to sites like these.  I don't care a whole lot about what other people are doing at any given moment so I don't expect them to care a lot about what I am doing.  I am to busy being in the moment when I am doing something to post what I am doing to these sites.
 

It is important that educators know how social networking works because their students are spending a substantial amount of time on social networking sites.  If educators want to take advantage of one more avenue by which they can reach their students they had better learn how social networking works.  If a student is going to be on one of these sites anyway why not put something educational on there for him/her to look at.  I don't dislike anything about either of the social networking sites; they both have their useful purposes.  I think that Facebook has the most useful features for a educator or classroom.  A teacher can create a page for his classroom and make post about important dates, happenings, and homework.  Homework assignments can even be tailored to include Facebook or Twitter.