What Does the Internet Mean to You?: Final Project

In the start of the semester, we were assigned to create a medium post about what the internet was. I spent time writing about how I viewed the internet, what the internet was, how it worked and what the internet is becoming.

When creating that initial post, I remember how I was going around and asking my friends and family abut what the internet meant to them. I got so many different unique responses I wanted to start a conversation about it on twitter to see what other types of responses I would receive.

Natalie Linnekin and I created a twitter account labeled @ CyberChannel12. We tweeted out the question “What does the internet mean to you?” and waited.

The hardest part about twitter is getting people to respond and interact with your tweet, especially as a start up account when you have no following. I researched how to gain interaction with your tweets here and followed a few of the steps.

We followed many people to start engaging with some followers like a human would.

We created a header and a profile picture to relate to our account and keep our account content focused to one topic as well as creating a social media presence.

We started conversations with followers who replied to our tweet and even some followed us back.

We started with creative content for our followers. Most of our followers ended up being college students who normally do not see this type of conversation on their twitter feed.

RESULTS

Our tweet ended up with 14 unique replies, 4 retweets, 3 likes ending with appeared 1,572 times on peoples feed as well as 175 total engagements with our tweet. We ended up with only 9 followers. Although our numbers were low and our attempt to gain virality did not succeed, we gained a great conversation about the internet on the internet. Here are a few of our responses to our pinned tweet on our page.

Connectivity and being able to access information was a common theme between most of these responses.

The internet is such a routine and way of life now for everyone, we almost cannot live without it. We rely on the internet for so many things and if we were without it, many of us would be lost.

I hope to continue to this conversation about the internet so much further by keeping this twitter account and attempt to engage with so many other people in the future.