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Twitter Reflection

I’ve had a Twitter since 2011. I like Twitter and I use it pretty regularly (Shirky made me realize just how regularly and how much of my free time I spend on Twitter). Over the years I have tweeted over 6,000 tweets and have gained over 500 followers.

However, I made a new twitter account for this class because I was a totally different person in 2011 and there is no telling what 2011 Amanda tweeted. I don’t want 2011 Amanda associated with the person I am today and over the years, the app Timehop, along with the recent development of this new professional twitter, has helped me realize that.  

I am still keeping my original account because I have a weird since of humor and some of my tweets today still wouldn’t be appropriate for my professional Twitter. This makes me think of Chapter 6 of Qualman’s book, “Death of Social Schizophrenia.” While I agree with this chapter, there is a way around it. The idea behind death of social schizophrenia is that through social media we have to create this online version of ourselves that has to be appropriate for a range of people. I do not hold my original Twitter account to this standard because I don’t take Twitter seriously and no one should take my account seriously. Knowing this, my twitter cannot be found by typing my name into a search bar. My last name is not on my account so I don’t have to kill it, my social schizophrenia is alive and well! Two accounts, two versions of myself? Qualman would probably disagree with my choice, but this is how I want it. I’m keeping my first account and now I have a new one that can be found by searching my name that is appropriate for future employers and professional colleagues to see and follow!

So far on this account that I created for this class, I’ve tweeted 82 tweets and have gained 95 followers. I’m glad I made this account and have learned a lot from this new side of Twitter. A lot of young professionals, social media gurus, and even a few blue check marked people from the marketing and media world have followed me. I think this a great start and I want to keep developing my account this way. I am going to continue using this account after this class and watch my account grow into something I would be proud to have my future employer to find.

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Top 10 Funny Women to Follow on Twitter

“Girls aren’t funny.” 

Says who? It’s 2016 and women are proving that outdated statement wrong. Celebrities like Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are great, popular examples of this but all kinds of women are also making people laugh every day. Some are using social platforms to do it; I follow a lot of funny women on Twitter, below is a list of the top 10 I recommend following.  I like them all so much I wasn’t sure how to come up with a fair ranking system, so I ranked them based on their follower count. This is a diverse list of women ranging in age, race, location, and online popularity. But they all have one thing in common: they are women who are good at making their twitter followers laugh. Also, beware that most of these users are a part of the weird side of Twitter with a modern since of humor that can be crude and make some people uncomfortable.

 10. @amandamull New York (4,182 followers)

https://twitter.com/amandamull 

I confess I follow this girl mainly because we have the same name. Her tweets aren’t always fire, but sometimes she’ll tweet something really relatable or undeniably funny and I’ll find myself trolling her page looking for similar tweets.

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9. @crissymilazzo Los Angeles (4,444 followers)

https://twitter.com/crissymilazzo

I like this account because it seems so genuine and I believe it is. This girl tweets a lot about funny things that happen to her. Everyday humor is always good humor.

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8. @trynnagetajob Los Angeles (5,173 followers)

https://twitter.com/trynnagetajob

This account has a weird since of humor and I’m about it. They tweet about their everyday life, current events, memes, and relationships. They can laugh at anything and I think there tweets are good reminders that you don’t have to take anything too seriously.

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7. @myhairisblue New York (9,444 followers)

https://twitter.com/myhairisblue

This girl, Sam, is a writer. So of course, she writes good tweets. She often tweets about feminism and other social issues and is still funny while doing it.

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6. @yunawriter ? 10.6K (followers)

https://twitter.com/yunawinter

Most of Yuna’s followers would probably say this is a sad twitter account but sometimes it’s dark humor. Her metaphors can make you laugh at how sad things can be. I think that’s a necessary kind of humor sometimes.

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5. @allstn Chicago (10.7K followers)

https://twitter.com/allstn

This girl tweets random things and I find myself relating or laughing at most of her stuff, she also retweets some funny things. Sometimes she will tweet about tweeting or and use the internet to make fun of the internet and I think that’s funny.

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4. @ evepeyser New York (10.8K followers)

https://twitter.com/evepeyser

Sam tweets about her life, which of course is super interesting because she’s a young writer living in NYC. And she uses humor to laugh at her problems. Enough said. Ps her and @myhairisblue are friends IRL. Lookout for their tweets to each other, they’re also funny.

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3. @shayfromonline Alabama (11.3K followers)

https://twitter.com/shayfromonline

Shay is a student at the University of Alabama and her crude humor is so ridiculous I can’t help but laugh out loud. The one above is one of her more... tame tweets. I’ll be scrolling through twitter waiting for class to start and a tweet from Shay will have me ugly laughing and hoping no one was reading over my shoulder.

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2. @asgardianrose ? (21.5K Followers)

https://twitter.com/AsgardianRose

This account does a lot of retweeting and normally I don’t like that but this account retweets a lot of different people with solid tweets. Tweets I never would’ve seen if they didn’t retweet it. They also have good original tweets, mainly comically sad ones about relationships. They’ll make you laugh about how alone you are.

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1. @housewifeOfHell New York (22.2K followers)

https://twitter.com/HousewifeOfHell

I’m not a mom but anyone who appreciates mom culture can get a laugh out of this account. They tweet funny exerts representing mom life and also retweet moms or tweets about moms.

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Socialnomics (2)

I just got done reading Erik Qualman’s book and I admittedly wasn’t expecting to like it because it’s my text book for class. But I was surprised to have actually read all of the chapters, learned a lot about the way society uses social media, and enjoyed what I learned. 

First off, as a reader, I really appreciated the way this book was formatted. Qualman had good chapters with interesting titles and then within those chapter had easy-to-read sections that broke down big ideas and made them easy to comprehend. He also made it easy with all of his logical analogies. I enjoyed when he compared big concepts to something small and relatable. This makes learning easier. This makes learning fun. Thanks Qualman. 

One chapter that I think really generated a good discussion was towards the beginning of the book, chapter 2. I think my peers and I agreed, for the most part, with Qualman that Social Media = Preventative Behavior. This chapter lead us into a discussion on whether or not social media has the power to control personal and/or corporate behavior. One of my classmates even brought up (what used to be) a popular twitter account among our student body that drove preventative behavior, Blackout Bobcat. Accounts like this one and other things similar to it on social media can easily backfire and give someone a bad online (and even, offline) reputation. 

While this is true i think, for the most part, as a generation we recognize this and that’s what makes social media = preventative behavior. We know that our grandmothers are stalking our Facebooks and that our potential employer will probably google us to check out our online presence. Well, it’s proably a little much to say this is recognized by our entire generation, but at least it is by the people in #GCWeb16 thanks to Qualman. The guy really knows his stuff!  

@amandapn0_0

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The Facebook Obsession

I thought the film, Facebook Obsession, was going to be about how individual users are addicted to Facebook and how it has negatively affected their lives. I was presently surprised when I watched it and found it was about how social media has affected society as a whole both negatively and positively. 

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Socialnomics

I started reading Socialnomics by Erik Qualman. I’m only a few chapters in and I already like it! It’s written well and has some really good, relatable analogies. “From Main Street to Wall Street and from schoolrooms to boardrooms, there is a revolution happening,” and that revolution is the continuously growing form of communication we know as social media. 

Social media isn’t a time waster, it’s a time saver!  

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Remember a while back when the city of Milledgeville basically shut down because we didn't have clean water? The schools were closed, and essentially all of hamburger lane (US 441) was shut down. We were thirsty and hungry and confused, but we weren't alone. Thanks to the hashtag that started to trend on facebook, twitter, and instagram; #MillyWaterCrisis united us all in our struggles and many users chose to turn this unfortunate event into a joke. From pictures of people at the lake celebrating a break from school, to memes about drinking beer instead of water, social media played a big role in this small crisis.