Educational uses for social networking tools are on the rise. Social networking tools allow educators to share, store, sort and search for websites (del.icio.us), people (Facebook), photos (Flickr), and videos (YouTube). Many commercial sites allow some of these functionality as well. Educators can get recommendations for, write reviews of and purchase books and other products (Amazon.com), music (iTunes), movies (IMDB.com). A Wiki is an online resource in which users contribute and edit content while twitter has become popular with micro - bloggers.
Being networked really does expand my mind. There's so much that is being shared online and keeping up just adds to more knowledge. A good thing a bad thing in the sense that it could be easiy overwhelming due to the sheer amount of data and the time it requires to indulge in all that.
API programming has allowed users to create numerous applications of varying interests. So far Facebook users have contributed the most of any social network site - over eighty thousand.
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I bet Twitter is right on their heels! It seems to have exploded in the last 6 months.
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