Microblogs – Disadvantages

References provided in Literature Section

• Can be extremely time consuming and possibly addictive (Dunlap & Lowenthal, 2009)
• Possibly encourages bad grammar because posts have a character limitation (Dunlap & Lowenthal, 2009)
• Can sometimes be distracting to students when used during a class lecture (Ebner, 2009)
• Individuals who are involved in large networks can easily be overloaded with a large amount of information (Jay, 2007)
• Teachers who make themselves available using microblogs are “on-call” 24-7, which can lead to intrusion into his/her private life (Grosseck & Holotescu, 2009)