Diigo, is very new to me and this has been my first experiences with this method of social media.  I am sure I will take some time in the near future to explore this with a deeper meaning.  What I am also finding that I find myself getting introduced to so many social media tools, that by the time I figure it all out, I will be retired and on a beach in a sunny state, but having on young adult a soph in college and one teenager in the 10th grade, and one  in the 7th and one in the 3rd (lol, that's all) I enjoy discussing some of this with them.  Especially my oldest two, to see what their knowledge base is where they are attending school.

I have used Twitter on a limited bases in the past, actually after reading this, it reminded me that I had a twitter account for my non-profit organization that was maintained by another person of my organization.  I just felt that I got the same with Linkedin and had gotten use to it.  For me it's if I get use to it change becomes difficult.  It took me years to get use to not hearing the original ground line sign in of AOL, and more so to stop using AOL, actually, I still go there every now and then.  This course, all though I will admit, I have not put my best efforts in, is a very valuable course in that it educates you on what is out there and how to use these tools.  I will, as I have stated revisit all of these great tools, it will only make us more informed and social media up to date... 

Or, "hire them" and pay them their worth to keep them!  One of the most important realization of self, is knowing your limitations a lesson over the years I have been forced to learn, started out with a pluming job in my house that should have taken 2 hours, instead it took two days and a call to the plummer at weekend rates. It was at this time I fully understood someone's worth in their abilities to do things much better then I am possible of doing...

Being a child of the 60's  and not having this new age of technology to meet our needs, "back in the day" would you say my education was not as "complete" as the education of others?  When I think about this I think I preferred my education then.  It may not have been huge in content, but it was personal and I felt more socially connected.  There is much I could discuss on then and now education.

In sticking with reality, this also brings in the negative, and I feel this is where we fall behind with this continual surge of technology.  We are moving so fast and not considering the "bad" that comes with this.  As it's a brave new world for students, others, with other agenda's are also sharing this brave new world.  Even on school levels, with the use of social media to promote negative behaviors, let's talk about them.

In during research, I truly enjoy this tool and use it often. It was great in my masters thesis,and will probably use this in my doctoral dissertation.  Easy to use and collect, analyze data, getting consent, and maintaining ethics.