The Lurk and Recon

So for this section of the challenge we are told to just lurk around and observe the situations of the topic we chose on 2 different social media sights. I spend a ludicrous amount of time online and since i have been a presence on the internet i have lurked on sites that interested me. For the assignment i was on Twitter and facebook, these are my major picks the response is quick and there a lot of people contributing even though they are not all experts. For the cost of textbooks and higher education the most vocal are the ones paying for the textbooks and classes, my issue is that i haven’t found too many advocates for custom books and or digital copies. I feel that i am not searching correctly and am looking in hot button sections that aren’t allowing both sides to speak.  Recently my phone my glasses and my car are all out of commission so mobile viewing and screen shooting are not possible till next week or later. I return to these topics every other night, the most volatile time for these talks are around election season beginning and end of the semester so the feeds get stale quickly. With twitter it a lot of big tweets getting attention while on facebook i noticed have been more comment oriented and people repeating and forwarding the same articles.