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1. Cherie Dargan—Facebook & Twitter “Grow up”

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& in the news

2. Cherie Dargan—Facebook & Twitter “Grow up”

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1) Are we so obsessed with the web that we are isolating ourselves
from family and friends in the "real world" in order to have a life
online?
2) Is the quick and easy interface of Twitter and Facebook encouraging
people to be even more self involved, posting the silly trivia of their
day?
3) Are features like the 140 character limit of Twitter and Facebook's
brief postings on the wall making us even more fragmented in our
thinking and communication style?
4) Will all of this quick communication make us more distracted, and
less able to focus on creating or reading/processing longer chunks of
text?

5) Is the line between personal and professional--and public
and private--even more blurred by the use of Facebook and
Twitter?
6) Shirky points out that the line is also blurring between
cyberspace and IRL, as people make plans on FB & Twitter to
meet up. He even suggests that it is changing the way that
people make plans, as in “text me when you get done with your
meeting and we’ll meet up…”

1) Engage people in discussing topics, sharing ideas,
interacting online (the Church in Seattle, WA)
2) Let people "follow" others and get quick updates on their
activities and thoughts and daily routines (Rachel Maddow,
Rick Sanchez, Barak Obama, Joe Biden)
3) Give quick headlines and news (CNN, Courier, KWWL)
4) Educate and support people (Weight Watchers)
5) Mobilize people to act (or vote, or buy, or show up--see
Clay Shirky's book)
6) Strengthen interpersonal relationships
(and find out things
about your spouse that he/she would never tell you F2F—”Texas
Red Chili” incident)

3. Cherie Dargan—Facebook & Twitter “Grow up”

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CResearcher danah boyd (did her doctoral dissertation on
identity, teens and SNS (it’s posted online)
Chttp://www.danah.org/papers/
CWriter Lev Grossman. “Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies. “Time
CThursday, Feb. 12, 2009
Chttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1879169,00.html
CFace Book In Reality - idiotsofants.com and BBC's The Wall.
This video pokes fun at Facebook, and shows how silly it would be
in “real life” to have someone show up at your front door, asking if
you want to be their friend.
Chttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrlSkU0TFLs

CThe Pew Internet Research Project
Chttp://www.pewinternet.org/Media-Mentions/2009/Facebook-
takes-strides-toward-Twitter-territory.aspx
CWriter Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The power of
organizing without organizations. Penguin Books, 2008.
Chttp://www.shirky.com/(his website)
Chttp://www.herecomeseverybody.org/(his book’s blog)
CScott Simon speaks with NPR's Social Media Strategist Andy
Carvin about Face book's fifth birthday. Feb. 7, 2009 ·
Chttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10037732
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Chttp://twitter.com
Chttp://facebook.com
Chttp://cherieedtech.tumblr.com/
CCherie’s Tumblr page
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Chttp://twitter.com/professorpost
CCherie’s Twitter page
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Chttp://twitter.com/MikeDargan
CMike Dargan’s page

CI will post the entire PPT on Googledocs.
CI will also post a shorter one with only the
cartoons.
CCherie Dargan, [email protected]