Cloud

Today In our Social Media class at Utah State University, we participated in a cloud discussion.  What this entails is: Internet or Data connectivity, each person having a device, and in our case; each person having the platform Twitter.  Each person uses the hashtag #socmeddiscuss.

I was a little confused at first as to what our end goal was.  I had 

actually never even typed a tweet and sent it before in my life.  I have 

sent tweets for my blogs, but to do that I just click share to twitter on 

Blogger and it would automatically bring up the message with a URL 

to my blog in it.  (PICTURE)  After @thelifeofbill showed me the 

ropes, I began the tweeting frenzy.  We were asked to ask a question 

about social media, as well as tag someone in our class.   

I thought that the classroom would be obnoxiously loud, everyone trying to show the funniest video and playing their favorite music.  I was quite surprised to find that the class was for the most part, silent.  There were a few side conversations throughout the room but overall, it was much quieter than I expected! 

I thought it was awesome that one of our classmates (sorry I forgot your name) was able to bring Fight the New Drug into the conversation. I can’t remember whether she @’d, retweeted, or favorite, one of their posts and added the hashtag #socmeddiscuss.  The cool part about it was, that the organization tweeted back.  Not only that, they posted a picture of two students standing on the True Aggie block (this is a spot on campus that 98% of students have a picture of).  They notified us that the company was founded by four Utah State students that had an idea.  That idea was Fight the New Drug, the new drug they are referring to is pornography.  I had heard of the movement before because I saw a student in one of my classes wearing one of their very noticeable red shirts. I asked her what it said and she informed me about the organization.  

Another student in class sitting next to me (I forgot his name too) was 

shocked that it started here at Utah State University as well.  He turned to me and said, “Dang! They even got Russell Brand talking about that. He’s got a video on YouTube!”  I then went and watched the video, and tweeted those congratulations and that they are doing a great job.  I also credited them to teaming up with celebrity Russell Brand.  That is pretty cool.

I also posted a tweet asking about how another classmate felt about the discussion that we had on the cloud in class the next day to see if he had any other input.