Interaction on the Cloud

              This was an interesting and entertaining experience. I have never had an experience like this before this one. I posted a few tweets on twitter posing a question and then tagging an acquaintance to see if they had an opinion about the subject. Only a few people interacted with the question, and it was interesting to see their point of view. The person I tagged in one of the posts didn’t respond, so that was unfortunate. I had no control over that so I started looking to see what caught people’s attention.

                One question I remember that caught people’s attention was a question about what’s better a cat or a dog and why? This one was the most popular question that I saw in the hour that I was actively posing and answering questions on twitter. Why did this one get so much attention? Is this something people were passionate about at that moment in time? That could possibly be the case. It was late in the evening and people have been gone all day and miss their cat or dog or even both. This topic took over many other more “important” questions such as topics about the presidential election. I finally came to the conclusion that it was more entertaining. Posting your opinion about cats and dogs is a lot more entertaining. You find funny pictures and quotes and that just makes the next person want to find something to top the last post. This would have been a lot different if everyone was back at their own place or even doing it alone. It would still be entertaining, but you wouldn’t hear or know if the people reading your post were enjoying it as much as you were.

                Social media nowadays is more for entertainment than anything else. Yes, it is good for collecting new information and an instant update on what’s going on in the world. This experience made me realize how it is more for entertainment. The more tags/handles you use, the more people who are interested in that topic will join in on the conversation. It was interesting to see how quick something can go up in popularity, and also how quick it will go down. Some tweets that are being followed by many people will get skipped or won’t grab anyone’s interest. We don’t have any control over that. All we can do is ask questions and hope they catch someone else’s attention. If not you just move on to the next question or the question about cats and dogs.

                This was an interesting experiment, and it was beneficial to see how handles and hashtags can connect the world just by a press of a button!

Here is a link to the site of all the questions posed if you're interested:

https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23socmeddiscuss