tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post8708781468858473592..comments2024-03-28T18:35:54.237+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: Twitter rantKevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-19483103373567785822011-01-09T23:40:38.555+09:002011-01-09T23:40:38.555+09:00Jason,
I feel your pain. I still have trouble us...Jason,<br /><br />I feel your pain. I still have trouble using the word "login" as an adjective (e.g., "your login ID"), and I refuse to use it as a verb. Instead, I prefer the old phrasal verb "log in"-- two separate words, as God intended. Another construction I balk at is "underway" as opposed to "under way." But I think history is against me: both "login" and "underway" are extremely common these days.<br /><br />Holden,<br /><br />It would be an honor! My experience with Korean students-- and this info is now a few years out of date, so things may have changed-- is that they love social networking because they like the idea of connections acquired through chains of familiarity. In keeping with "frog in a well"/Hermit Kingdom mentality, they don't like strangers. Or more precisely: if a stranger were to appear, he'd need to be a friend of a friend.<br /><br />So when I asked my students, in one course, to create blogs, they were leery: blogs can be accessed by anyone on the Net, a fact that made many of my students nervous.<br /><br /><br />KevinKevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-24374293411277352642011-01-09T18:52:14.808+09:002011-01-09T18:52:14.808+09:00I like how you explain this phenomenon of Twitter ...I like how you explain this phenomenon of Twitter and how you challenge people to be creative indirectly. Having never tried it out myself, do you mind if I use part of this post in a discussion on social networking with my students?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-70694628728357683052011-01-09T15:47:54.995+09:002011-01-09T15:47:54.995+09:00If someone follows me, I normally look at who they...If someone follows me, I normally look at who they are following and if I recognize who else they are following or their tweets look interesting, I normally follow them back. This does lead to me unfollow a number of people for a variety of different reasons. The use of auto-direct messages means a quick unfollow. I also weed out those that link to pay to read articles or those that are clearly only trying to market a product. I have been thinking about unfollowing a number of people whose tweets I normally don't even read.I follow a large number of people and wonder if I am missing tweets that I would like to read.<br /><br /><br />P.S Even though I used it three times above, I still don't feel that comfortable using "unfollow" as a word.Jasonhttp://www.mississippitokorea.comnoreply@blogger.com