Tweeter or time-waster?

When Twitter first burst onto the Social Media scene, it was a concept completely unheard of. 140 character posts and people 'follow' me?! It honestly seemed ridiculous to me. But Twitter then began to spread rapidly, with everyone I knew able to be contacted at the touch of the @ key. Since joining Twitter, I have made 56,050 tweets. A bit excessive but I guarantee most of those tweets were either my horoscope being automatically tweeted or about...

Mobile bricks

My partner and I live in a small mining town in NSW. A few months ago, we moved to a property about 10 minutes out of town. This meant we had no mobile phone coverage. -GASP!- I, personally, take my phone everywhere with me and having no mobile phone coverage at my own home was a huge shock to the system. I was sitting on the lounge watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S and felt like I’d been taken back to the 90s when you actually had to talk to people (I know,...

Blogs & Blogs & Blogs

This teaching period, I chose to study Social Media as an elective for my degree. Let's just get one thing straight; I hate writing. So why did I chose a unit with so much writing? I'm not quite sure actually, but let's see how we go. This may well turn into a farce where everyone comes to find humour in my lack of writing skills.  Blogging. How could someone's usually meaningless ramblings be of any interest to a bunch of complete...