The Role of Social Media - Personally and Professionally

I will admit that prior to today, I pretty much did not give social media a second thought.  At various times when words like blog or twitter or wikis have come up during professional conversations, I would smile as though I knew all about it, nod my head here and there and think to  myself that other subjects like perhaps English could benefit but Math? Nah. So today, I began a one week workshop that is designed to open up my eyes to the social media world where I, in turn, will hopefully change my mind about its role and function in my mathematics classroom.  Today was a very quick day filled with much information. The best part is that here I am at 10 pm STILL thinking about it. I even called a fellow colleague and went on and on about class. Do I feel at this point that I can properly say how this social media craziness is going to fit in personally and professionally? Not yet. So for now I must leave this idea as "to be continued...".