Week 8: Sharing

I had never heard of Scoop.it before this week's assignment to be honest. And, to be even more honest, I'm not sure what I think of it. On the one hand, it seems like a good substitute for Twitter, especially since I prefer to use Twitter as a news feed on topics of interest, rather than engage in the actual "social" portion of the media. On the other hand, I'm struggling to see what unique feature Scoop.it offers. At the moment, most of the benefits I get from Scoop.it are similar to what I get from Twitter or Pinterest (including an interface of which I am not a fan...). Perhaps I simply need to experiment more with it -- it did take me about 5 years to come around to Twitter.