Blog about Twitter

I believe Twitter is very different to both a Blackboard discussion and an in-class discussion. For example, a lot of content on Twitter can be very personal and also holds up to that person's image of themselves or what their views are on certain things. For example, there was a Tennis star who had made controversial posts about racism and his views on it which weren't viewed well on the Tennis public. However, because he wasn't a major star at the time, these tweets received no recognition and people generally did not know about them. In 2018, he reached the quarterfinals of a grand slam and his PR team had him delete all these negative tweets since he was no receiving attention from the Tennis world. However, this damage had been done and his name was shamed during his short period of success. Twitter can be more damaging for one's reputation and is definitely not educational for the most part as most tweets relate to someone's opinion of a subject and not facts. A blackboard discussion is mostly used for our assignments and although we can state our own opinions, people do this mainly based off of fact and not things that impact them personally where they would be judged by anyone else than the professor most of the time. An in-class discussion is different as well because it is mostly active participation where people want to share their opinions, but it is on a certain topic provided by the professor of that class.  Students will not talk too personally during these in-class discussions as most courses at Baruch are more quantitative and based on fact rather than opinion of the public.