Twitter...woah

Hello all! 

     I have been sick the past few days so, today was the first day I really got to dive in to what the course was about. One of the first things I did was create a twitter. I am one of the hold-outs that was waiting until I had to get one. The sign-up process was pretty simple, but when I started to actually dive-in and play around with it, my face was similar to the picture on the right. I was not aware of how complex twitter is, and how much you can do with it. While still hesitant in how useful it will be for me, I am excited to explore it in-depth over the next 6 weeks.
     The next thing I started looking into was what topics on social media I am going to investigate for my community paper. I am a color guard instructor at Florida High so I am pretty obsessed with marching band and it's culture. Currently, DCI is occurring which is kind of like a travel team for soccer or baseball. It is comprised of students no older than 21, and the minimum age can go as low as 14, depending on which corp you want to join. You can audition for any corp across the country, and regular practices begin around the end of April. Competitions start around now (the first one was just a few days ago) and the final World Championships is in the beginning of August. Participants in DCI spend the entire season with their corp, practicing every day and sleeping in random schools and churches across the country.  Everyone has their favorite corp that they root for every year as well as the one that they dislike. So, I wanted to observe two different social media platforms that follow and give updates on DCI as a whole. I am considering watching one corp in particular, and then the DCI group as a whole, but I am still going back and forth on that one. I will update here when I have made a final decision on the group I will "lurk on" and the group I will interact with. Meanwhile, check out this cool video on "What is Drum Corps International?"