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After reading the three required readings, I found them to be very diverse. I am pretty familiar with literacy narratives because they were discussed in my high school Creative Writing classes. However, I used the Blackboard links to refresh my memories and look for information I may have lost in the year and a half since high school.

I watched the video and read the links on Blackboard, and there was one in particular I found interesting; Facebook vs. Twitter. The article talked about the intellectual differences in using the two very different social networking sites. The article stated that Facebook is much more intellectually stimulating than Twitter because Facebook is more complex information and Twitter is straightforward. I do not agree with this article but it was interesting to see another point of view.

Out of all three of the readings, I enjoyed the "Twitterature" piece the most. I thought using tweets rather than a standard format of writing a paper was a clever adaptation to today's social media outlets. I believe that Twitter is an important social networking site that is not utilized as much as it should be. Twitter was described to me as being involved with the people "you wish you knew and were friends with," versus Facebook being the people you are actually around every day. It might sound odd wanting to be connected to people you WISH you knew, but in the professional world, Twitter is widely used and is considered an important element to reach customers and/or the public. (Excuse me if my love for Public Relations comes through my blog posts and if I continue to rant about the importance of Twitter.)

http://twitter.com/tanyagabrish