The way that we give and receive information today is worlds apart from how we exchanged information 30 years ago. Technology created an even bigger chasm in the past 5-10 years. In 2009, with the advent of micro-feeders like Twitter and Facebook, there are incredible ways to share little bits of information, and I have mixed feelings about it...
When it comes to gaining insight into college admissions, you miss the bigger picture of getting a holistic view of the process - visiting schools, talking with professors, hanging out with students - you can't minimize those aspects and create 140 characters worth of meaning from that. On the other hand, we have so many different outlets of news, so many different thoughts we'd like to express, sometimes snapshots are the best way to do so - or at least to start there.
College admissions officers often look at Facebook and Twitter profiles, not as a make-or-break decision with their prospective students, but just to get an idea of who this student is behind the application papers. What is the contect behind the Facebook photos and the Twitter tweets? Because at the end of the day, as brief as we make our comments, and as we digest the latest news into smaller and smaller bits of information, they will only be as relevant as we make them. If the content in those tweets, facebook updates, emails, and blogs are worth reading about, we will start there, and then continue to peruse libraries and cyberspace for a wide variety of sources.
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