Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, oh my!

[lph]

Rebecca, check out the 4 minute interview the BBC news did with him, he's reposted it. It's very moving.

Crankin, Twitter has just as much, or as little, to do with popular culture as a newspaper does. It's there, alongside local and international news. The difference is that you can interact more. I follow Neil Gaiman because I enjoy his writing. Because of that I now know more about the refugee situation in Syria on a personal level than I would ever have learned otherwise. I can ask him, or any of the other people who were there with him direct questions about the experience, and have a fair chance of getting an answer.

Instagram I'm not that interested in. I have a few friends who enjoy photography and use it a lot more than other social media, so it's a way of seeing what they're up to.

eta: One of the major bonuses of Instagram, and Twitter probably too, is the chance of stumbling over something or someone really interesting just by chance. I was browsing Instagram one day, just looking at good photos, and via via via saw a photo of something that looked like a tame cheetah. It was, and his owner is Saudi, and he hunts with it. He also does big game hunting in poor areas of Africa, and gives away the meat to poor families. He posts under the name saudhunter. No matter how you may feel about hunting, this is a pretty interesting and unusual guy, and guaranteed someone I would never have heard of otherwise.