Week 5 some observations

I have been working on some of the material for week 5 after some setbacks in my course work and the thought of social interaction with distance education really started rolling around in my head. I was wondering not only the implications of social interaction within the classroom of online learning. But how our personal web 2.0 social media interact affects our learning patterns. We are all well aware of the implications of the immediate gratification but how does this affect our online classroom? Do things move too slow? Should we have a "tweet" like option to allow for more rapid fire discussion to speed things up? I think one way or another this will have to be integrated for online education may be  pooled together with traditional education due to its speed in comparison with social media.