What They Might Have Done in Social Media

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  • Alan Levine
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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.

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@caholt2000

Einstein’s 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

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What they might have done in social media

@dslupekds106

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Assignment: What They Might Have Done In Social Media

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What They Might Have Done in Social Media

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@ldeitrick

Susan B on Social Media

I chose to create a Facebook and twitter account for Susan B. Anthony. The Facebook page doesn’t look at realistic as I would have liked,

@tmckenzierich

Twister: Van Gogh

Never heard of Twister before but apparently it is a website that can make fake Twitter-like accounts for well known individuals in the past.  The

@_evanmay_

Hellenic Social Media

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@ekatkins19

#georgewashington

For this assignment, you had to create a fake status update for someone. This assignment was worth 3.5 stars. I picked George Washington, his twitter

@kristinoconnn

If Alexander Hamilton had Facebook

My first assignment was worth 3.5 stars, but I am going to claim that I did 4 stars worth of work. I put quite a bit

afanghel

Sittin’, Waitin’, Wishin’.

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kethao35

What They Might Have Done In Social Media

I am providing a tutorial for this assignment:

Step 1:

In the assignment description, there is a link to the right side titled Twister Tool.  Click on

kethao35

What They Might Have Done In Social Media

This is an assignment I was familiar with in the past.  I thought it was a fun assignment and I enjoyed doing it again.  I