Emerging Technology 3 - Twitter

So I finally broke down and got a Twitter account. I kept telling myself over and over I would never get one, but I thought for educational purposes only I would check it out.

Twitter was really easy to use. Signing up was a breeze. When I first went to Twitter.com there was two areas. A login button and sign up button. Once I hit the sign up button all it asked for was my full name, what I wanted as my username, a password, and my email address. Then, it asked for my email password to get people's emails. I was at first a little concerned about this because I didn't want Twitter emailing all my contacts, but that wasn't the case. It was just to see if any of my friends already had a Twitter account. Twitter did not send out any emails to any of my contacts.

Come to find out 3 of my contacts have Twitter accounts already, so after I completed that step it took me to the home page where I can read my "followers" tweets and also update my tweet, or also known as status. At the moment I'm only following 3 people and those are the 3 that already have Twitter accounts. But there is a search area where I can find other friends and also celebrities.

Also on Twitter you can personalize your page by putting a picture of yourself and by customizing the background. I like that you can customize the background because that's something different to experess you're personality. You can also set up when you get emails from Twitter; for example, if you like Twitter will email you if someone becomes a follower or if someone sends you a personal message. Another thing you can do is update your Twitter staus via mobile phone. I found this quite useful since I'm always on my phone!

This is an interesting site. I still prefer Facebook to this, but it's something new and I needed to explore something for my 3rd emerging technology post so I thought this would be a good one to check out. It's easy to use and easy to navigate. For those of you who like to just update and read status' this is a great site for you!

Check out my Twitter at: http://twitter.com/khill2420

Emerging Technology 2 - Photobucket

For my second emerging technology I chose to experiment with photobucket. I've heard of people using this before, but I never have. Usually, if I want to share my photos with people I just post them on facebook, so this was an interesting new way to share photos especially with people that don't have facebook.

This website was really easy to use. I went to photobucket.com and all I had to do was create an account and then it took me to a page where I automatically started uploading my photos I wanted to share with others. I only got a chance to upload about 25 photos for this assignment, but I plan on uploading more as I take more photos over the next couple holidays coming up.

There are a lot of different things you can do with this website. It's really easy to organize your photo's in any order you'd like. I chose to organize mine from the most recent events to older events. You can also have different album themes, you can create slideshows, you can share your album with just about anyone you'd like, and you can buy the prints you post on your album.

This is a really neat website. It's free to become a member and really easy to use. I recommend this website to anyone who wants to share their photos with others.

Here is a link to my album I've created for those of you who want to check it out: http://www.photobucket.com/khill2420