Twitterature

Time for our weekly update, once again. There will be no update next week, because we're enjoying a well deserved autumn break here in Pikkola. That’s why we actually have two updates today!

Today our main theme was social media. First we did a poll on who's on Facebook and who's not. It turned out that 19 out of 20 students who were present today are on Facebook. Everyone said, however, that they wouldn’t probably pay for Facebook if it started to cost something. Some said that it would depend on the price. Most of the students thought Facebook is addictive, at least sometimes. What we found interesting was that other social media, such as Google+, Myspace and so on, aren’t nearly as attractive as Facebook. On the other hand, five years ago everyone was raving about Myspace and very few had even heard about Facebook. Today Facebook has over one billion active users. Technology changes fast.

In addition to Facebook, we talked about social media in general. One interesting social networking service is Twitter where people communicate with messages that are only 140 characters long. Our task was to create a piece of Twitterature (that’s Twitter + literature) or, actually, a Twaiku (that’s Twitter + Haiku). To put simply, haiku is a very short form of Japanese poetry which goes perfectly with Twitter, because you have to be brief in both and choose your words carefully. Here are some of the beautiful twaikus the students wrote.

Hey guys / here’s some ice / for a perfect price / that’s my advice! -Nora Lakeside

Close your eyes / feel the love / smell the rose / who knows what it is -Elisabeth Jenkins

Love light above/ guys fight right / right tree, nice tea/ close your eyes and your nose -Mary Rabine

I love sea, when wind blows coolly on my face. / A nice evening ends terribly. / The lights go out and the roses fall. / Only you know what happens… -Nina Cole

Your nose, my rose, he knows, these are my toes. -Kathy Spoon

Light at the night and tree in the sea -Paulina Rock

I fight, that isn’t right. At night, I fly the kite and it is like the light. -Marie Rivers

Ice tea and nice sea, all I need! -Kate Ronney

I love the sea / Come with me / Even if it’s night / you can see the light -Jane Lauper


The song of the week was Hall of Fame by The Script feat. will.i.am, and it was chosen by Nina Cole. The second update for today will follow shortly.