Tweeting During Conference

I failed in every attempt to create a more descriptive title for this blog post, because I fail in every attempt to describe twitter or the experience of tweeting during General Conference. The speed at which people were tweeting astounded me --- I saw the tweets on twitter of quotes from talks, including graphical quotes, before I saw them on the screen (since there was a delay of live video coverage of about a minute). I tweeted quotes that meant a lot to me. One such quote was favorited many times by my friends, and was by Jeffrey R. Holland: "Defend your beliefs with courtesy and compassion, but defend them. #ElderHolland #ldsconf". I also browsed various hash tags created during conference, including "#ldsconf" and, not surprisingly, "#OrdainWomen". The latter saddened me that so many were online in that discussion, but as with topics discussed in Clay Shirky's book, it is difficult and maybe even wrong to prevent a group from forming, even if someone disagrees with the group's ideals.