Forums VS. Blogs VS. Social Networks

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Forums are like social mixers, where everyone is at equal level, milling about and discussing with others. These many to many communication tools allow anyone to start a topic and anyone to respond to one. Members are often at equal level, and content is usually segmented by topic. (rather than by people).


Blogs are like a keynote speech where the speaker (blogger) is in control of the discussion, but allows questions and comments from the audience. Blogs are journals often authored by one individual, and sometimes teams. In the context of business communication, these are often used to talk with the marketplace and to join the conversation that existing external bloggers may be having.


Social Networks are like topic tables at a conference luncheon. Ever been to a conference where different lunch tables had big white signs inviting people to sit and join others of like interest? It’s like that. Social networks allow members to organize around a person’s relationships or interests, rather that just focused on topic. People that know each other (or want to meet each other) will connect by a variety of common interests. These are great tools to get people of like interest to connect to each other and share information.

What Facebook Is For

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This is one of the true realities of Facebook. It really does explain how many of the people on Facebook use it.

Twitter in Plain English

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Frequency of Updating Social Network Page

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Twitter

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Twitter is a site that allows you to post one-line messages about what you’re currently doing—via the web interface, IM, or SMS. You can limit who sees the messages to people you’ve explicitly added to your friends list, or you can make the messages public.


What Twitter does, in a simple way, is merge a number of interesting trends into a single social software usage—like personal blogging, lightweight presence indicators, and IM status messages. It is also very good at getting a simple message across to many people at once. Other people like to use it to say what they did throughout the day because they feel the need to do so, like Kanye West.

Looking Forward...To The End

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As a Freshman in St. John's University's Pharmacy program, things haven't been very smooth as I expected it to be. With the work that we have to do for classes and situations occurring at home, it has been a bumpy ride. This blog didn't really turn out to the way I expected it to be. It is sad to be ending this blog in early development stages, but things that start out and continue to be rocky shouldn't continue because they end up being worse (the universe favors entropy!). I have learned a lot from this project and hope to carry out those teachings to future projects. And with that, this is an end.