Delicious left a Bad Taste in my Mouth.

Delicious is the worst. Literally the worst site sharing website I have ever seen.

I logged in and was instantly lost. It is a white window with a left handed blue navigation. It is dumb. I started looking for all my classmates. It took me 7 minutes to find one person! For some reason the search did not like my "@name" searches or any variation of that. I finally found one person and when I did I just started following everyone she had. I assume they are all my classmates! Dumb.

Agreed.

I am actually surprised we are still learning about Delicious. Especially since there is this amazing thing called Pinterest!! Pinterest is my friend. The week that I found Pinterest I was "pinning" like a mad woman!

I have 62 boards and more than 4,000 pins and it is AWESOME! Everything is all organized and I can actually share links with my friends (Delicious and I still have not figured that out). It really is the "new Delicious".  Many of my teacher friends use it. They have tons of boards dedicated to lesson plans, field trip ideas, classroom decor ideas and more. My boards are more of the food and drink recipes, gift ideas, home decor, and holidays. Geez-there are more than 4,000 pins-go and check it out!

Pinterest even looks better than Delicious. Pinterest uses pictures to show of its link's content. Wait a second....that concept sounds familiar....OH YEAH! That is exactly what this degree plan has been preaching since EDTC 602. Using images to help instructors relate information to the learner! WHOA. Thats makes a heck of a lot of sense doesn't it? Which one do you want to work with just by looking at these images?

My Delicious Account.

My Pinterest Account.

I think the choice is clear. And I am also craving french fries. Dang you, Pinterest and your wonderful recipes and great ideas!!! 

As soon as this class is over my Delicious will be deleted. I am undeniably, happily addicted to Pinterest. I have to be loyal. 

Goodbye, Delicious. You kind of suck.

My Tweets on Twitter: HASHTAG HASHTAG HASHTAG!!!!

Cute!

I have 2,690 tweets, 79 followers and follow 274 other Twitter folks. You might say I am a Twitter fan! Shoot one year for my friend Lindsay's birthday I spent the majority of my day "friendly harassing" Josh Groban on Twitter asking him to wish her #happybirthdaylindsay AND IT WORKED. We are both huge fans and this was just awesome!

Best Day EVAH! #forthewin

I am considering adding this to my resume. I am a dedicated to social media, have a mature understanding of its user opportunities and all it's networking capabilities.  (I kid-I kid! Hahha....mature.)

Seriously though-Twitter is fun and it definitely is a great way to communicate and share with people from all around the world! Even celebrity "boyfriends"! I can not remember the reason I joined Twitter but I am glad that I did. I like to keep up with TV shows, celebrities and friends online and Twitter is a neat way to do it.

Some have complained about the 140 character limit, I like it. It helps me keep things to the point and witty. I do confess that I have sat for at least 4-6 minutes thinking of the perfect tweet...but you want to make sure you use those 140 characters wisely!

A remember some of my friends predicting that Twitter would die off soon. It would just fade away and be forgotten. Well Twitter will be celebrating 8 years on March 21 and I feel that it is stronger than ever! More and more companies and institutions have realized that quick, short messages can peak interest and draw consumers to your websites and/or events. 

And then you have this great phenomenon of the #hashtag. 

The hashtag is just great! Comedian Jimmy Fallon (I follow him) made this great video with Justin Timberlake (follow him too) all about the #hashtag! It is hilarious! But describes and explains this hashtag thing is such a great way! Please watch it! 

I have actually found myself saying hashtag-like it is part of my sentence. (ex: Made homemade pizza tonight #AWESOME #getinmybelly) It is so lame but it is what it is. 

Keep on Tweeting, guys! I think you'll enjoy it!