Talk:Amelia Cacchione

Amelia, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post. I found your analysis of your twitter profile refreshing. I’m also very active on twitter so I found myself very engaged with your article. I was immediately drawn in by your first picture, I thought its placement was great and effective. I agree with you in the fact that Twitter, out of all other social media accounts, most accurately reflects my identity. Furthermore, I agree when you say that you are on twitter to have fun. I also find myself reading content on twitter for fun, rather than using a different platform.

I do have a few suggestions for you. You talk about how your account is locked, but you only offer one sentence as to why it’s locked. I’d personally be interested in hearing in greater detail why you have chosen to make your account locked. What implications does this type of rationale have on social media in general? What does it say about how society handles itself on social media? What’s the purpose of having it locked?

Additionally, I think you should go into greater detail about your followers and who you follow. It’d be interesting to hear a demographic-like breakdown of these followers/following. Personally, I follow all of my high school friends and acquaintances on twitter, as twitter was a key social media platform when I was in high school. When I came to UofM, Twitter was less utilized by people who I surrounded myself. So, I follow a lot more of my friends and acquaintances from my hometown than I do from college.

How have your tweets and retweets, followers and following, changed over time? And what does that say about your online identity?

I hope my comments offer some guidance. I found your piece refreshing and enjoyable. Twitter is awesome and considerably less facey than other social media platforms.

-Alex Ridener

Overall, I enjoyed reading your Wiki entry. Particularly, I appreciated how you opened the piece up with the fact that you think your twitter accurately reflects your personality. Additionally, you did a great job of establishing the conversational tone right away (ex: “go ahead and try to read my tweets. You can't? That’s because it’s private). The only question I have there is if that’s the best tone to convey your message. On this medium, perhaps a more formal/objective tone would work better (but I think it comes down to personal preference). If you do choose to keep it as is, though, I feel that it is an effective hook. Additionally, a bit later into the blog, you say “it’s about as superficial as all social media sites are” (in reference to your Twitter avi); however, this directly conflicts with your assertion that it accurately reflects your personality.

I also liked how you talked about how there’s no need for employers to read your political rants, but I think you should add more to that idea. Do you present a different (and unauthentic) self to potential employers? If so, why? What are the benefits of doing so? I think that could be an interesting addition to your wikisite.

Finally, I think you should incorporate the readings more into your wikipage. My page is guilty of the same thing, but the readings don't come up until the final paragraph. If you make more of an effort to incorporate the readings (including using more than solely the Floridi reading), you can demonstrate a mastery of the course material and help back up some of your claims. The flow is logical, although it could make more sense to add "Why Twitter" at the top instead of the bottom. Overall though, good work!

- Jason Rowland

Hey Amelia! I will comment on this later! -Bhumika Jain

I like your page and I am going to go back and make a more substantive comment this evening