What They Might Have Done In Social Media

Too bad Facebook was not around for most of history! Use the Fakebook tool to make a Facebook profile for a historical figure and make a fake tweet for the same character using the Twister tool.  See for Abraham Lincoln the example of a fake facebook profile and what he might have tweeted.

Make sure what you create is coherent with the person’s background, and explain what it might have meant for that person to use Facebook and twitter “way back then”. Include screen shots and links to what you created, and elaborate on what their use of social media might have been like if it existed for them.    

This is a 3 star assignment.

I really have enjoyed this assignment.  For this assignment I decided to use the historical figure of Susan B. Anthony.  I choose her because she really fought hard to give woman the right to vote.  To find more information on her I went to wikipedia as well as this biographical website that I used to verify my facts that I found on wikipedia.  I then took screen shots of what I created with Jing.  I believe that if social media was around when Susan B. Anthony was alive she would’ve gotten so many supporters as well as she would’ve been able to get a right to vote so much sooner.  It’s too bad that she died before the 19th amendment was passed that gave women the right to vote.  But if there was social media around in her time there would’ve been a lot more petition and avocation for women’s rights.

Here is a link to Susan B. Anthony’s facebook page that the images below are of.