Rivers of social media?
I have never really heard of the term, Social Me(dia) River. However, after reading our course notes and listening to the lecture, I now realise that Twitter can be seen as a non-stop river of information.
We (the users) are like little boats in the same river (sea), with just different little cargoes on our way to somewhere (well.. nowhere). I was also introduced to the term 'micro-blogging' - little pieces of information we share on twitter or other social networking sites.
According to Java, et al. (2007) "Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users can describe their current status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web. Twitter, a popular microblogging tool has seen a lot of growth since it launched in October, 2006".
Yet, we can bring all our little bits of information together on a site called Friendfeed. We can get all our social networking contributions in one place by subscribing to our own feeds. Friendsfeeds can be great if you want to have everything under one roof. You can inform your friends and family what is happening in your life by just providing one link to them, instead of all your online social networking links.
Reference
Java, A., et al (2007). Why we Twitter: Understanding Microblogging usage and communities. Procedings of the Joint 9th WEBKDD and 1st SNA-KDD Workshop 2007, August 12. Retrieved from http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/get/a/publication/369.pdf
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