This week, we at The Evening Sun took part in an AP Webinar called “Social Media in the Newsroom: Break News Better and Faster.” The purpose of this webinar was to teach us how to utilize the vast and ever-expanding breadth of social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

It was very informative and really got me thinking about how I use these outlets now as opposed to just one year ago, or even a few years. Personally, I have never been paticularly tech-savvy when it comes to computers, phones, or game consoles. However, my original instinct to stay away from the wide world of social media had much more to do with how it’s used as opposed to whether or not I can even use it.

The thing that always bugged me about Twitter especially was its seeming lack of purpose. A tool designed to answer one question: what are you doing? At first I could hardly believe that someone would invent such a thing, let alone that people would subscribe to this nonsense.

I mean, why would anyone take the time to stop what their doing just to notify people as to what they’re doing.

“Bob is watching TV!” (Sorry, Bob, don’t care.)