This is 3 star web assignment #712, “What They Might Have Done in Social Media.” The assignment read:
“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 Abaraham 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.”
I decided on Christopher Columbus as my famous person. I don’t really have any special reason for this other than I knew a bit about him and felt comfortable with the knowledge I had.
Oh! And I really like the poem we were always taught about him:
“In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He had three ships and left from Spain;
He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.”
This assignment was a lot of fun! (Silly, but awesome)
On Columbus’ Fakebook, I added 5 friends. The King and Queen hired him to go on this voyage, they are his cyber friends so that they can track the events of the voyage and easily communicate with him. Vinecent and Martin were the captains of the two other ships. They are his fakebook friends just in case they get split up at sea or need to communicate from ship to ship. And Leif Ericsson was a viking that Columbus met, they are friends so that they can keep in touch and hopefully meet again.
On his page I posted a status right after he left for his journey, when he arrived at his destination and once he arrived home.
The tweet is pretty self explanatory! Columbus though he had gone around the world to Asia, but he actually discovered North America.
This assignment was pretty neat. I have never hear of twister or fakebook. Fakebook really seemed very similar to facebook!! Both sites were easy to use, I like that!
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