Twitter Cloud

    In my most recent social media class we had a class cloud day. What does that mean? We took to Twitter to jump onto an floating but not really floating internet cloud. This took place over about an hour and we jumped onto the metaphoric cloud through hashtags and conversations on Twitter.

   While leading up to this hour I posed a question about why people ended up on Facebook instead of Google +. Through recent information we learned about Google + in our class it had become apparent that there were a lot of great benefits to using Google + as a primary social media platform.


   The responses were interesting and straightforward in the sense that Facebook gets more users just because it is Facebook. What I mean by that is everyone seemed to love the fact that if they wanted everyone in their online friend circle to see their most recent post or update it would be most effective on Facebook because everyone is on Facebook. Even though the argument between Facebook and Google +'s pros and cons hasn't happened on a large scale it would seem that even if Google + came out guns a blazin' with a seemingly endless list of pros it would still fall short of the great pro that Facebook holds for the time being in that, if you want people to know, you go to The Facebook.


   My time spend on the cloud was basically focused on the this Google + vs Facebook conversation as I went onto make a poll of where we would turn and social media users if Facebook were to shut down and we had to find a new time waster... I mean social media platform. The poll while limited in participants and possible answers did give an informative answer for those of us who had taken place in the mini experiment. The options were MySpace, Snapchat, Google + or some other form of social media. The majority came back as possible Google + users. I named this event the #SocMedApocalype because in order for this event to take place it would be safe to assume there would be such a huge outrage related to social media that it would be apocalyptic in nature.


    Beside the cool apocalypse related hashtag that was created a lot of other conversations popped up, like my attempted to get Mark Zuckerberg to join the cloud and a small break off group that created a little cloud dedicated to cats.

Overall the experience was fun but had the feeling of a lot more potential. There were other celebrities and public figures that were reached out to but besides a few smaller local celebrities there wasn't a lot of big name player conversations. It showed me how many people it really takes to get the world or country or even a small area talking about and engaged in the same thing.