Social networking and twittering are dying? Dang! I was just getting the hang of it. I finally figured out how to delete all those couple hundred people I have no clue who they are but wanted to be my friends on facebook, so I let them.....
and I just figured out how to have a food fight and if I were a president I'd have been Ulysses Grant and if I were a navy ship I'd be a Cyclone-Class Coastal Patrol Ship (PC-1). Damn, I better hurry up and find out what kind of gun I would be and what Hip Hop Bad Bxtch I'd be, and what my Chinese/Japanese/Turkish/Serbian name would be and what sexy piercing would suit my personality; so much to do before it goes away! Oh no. There goes all my free time. Sigh. Oh my god, and what my MBTI is! Yes, so many of my friends on facebook have found out they are INTJs and ESFJs. And I just made my first little chirps on twitter. But I haven't used my myspace account much lately.....maybe it's a sign. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:03:08 -0400 >From: "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> >Subject: [tips] Decision Criteria/Flowchart On How To Decide Whether You >Should Follow Someone On Twitter >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> >Cc: "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> > >Dear Tipsters, > >I am sure that many of you, when not engaging in the endless careerism >that is involved in being a member of the academy, have heard about a >social networking/time-waster popular on the InterWebs (IW) called >Twitter that produces Twits, er, Tweets, that is, short pieces of information >that someone has decided has such significance and import that they must >be communicated to "followers" immediately. Human decision-making, >being as impeccable as it is (e.g., one study of the content of Tweets has >shown that only 40% of them are just "babble" [as pointed out in the article >below a common response to this finding has been "Only 40%?"; for a >popular media account of the study see the following: > >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/08/17/urnidgns852573C4006938800025761500818FFB.DTL > ]) > >the obvious question that manifests itself (or begs to be answered) is: >"Given all of the intensely interesting and entertaining people putting out >Tweets, who has the highest signal-to-noise ratio such that following >this person maximizes your information/entertainment quota for your >rapidly diminishing free time (NOTE: I'm referring to non-retirees here)?" > >One answer to this question is the decision algorithm provided in the following >article: >http://www.esarcasm.com/3687/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-a-twitter-guide/ > >Note that this would a wonderful tool to use in class, either in intro or in >cognitive or any other class that focuses on decision-making, algorithmic >vs. heuristic reasoning, and, perhaps, highlights some of the guiding values >that people who use Twitter/Facebook/Socialnetworking systems have. >NOTE: it helps to know who Amy Winehouse and Ashoton Kutcher are >as well as knowing how strippers dress. > >Go and make productive use of these tools. > >-Mike Palij >New York University >m...@nyu.edu > >P.S. I avoided asking the obvious question of who on Tips is on >Twitter, Facebook, etc., in part, because I think that most Tipsters >don't have the time to do Twitter (then again, perhaps they are tenured >or retired and have given up doing anything productive with their lives). >But, perhaps we can have a weekly "Tipster Most Likely to be on >Twitter/Facebook/SocialNetworking/etc" feature like we have a >"Tipster of the Week" (copyright M. Sylvester). > >On not. > > > > > > > > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
