Blog About Twitter

A twitter discussion is very similar to a blackboard discussion.  In both of these discussions, students are posting their thoughts and assignments and it gives other students the chance to read through each of their post and leave a comment toward their posts.  In my opinion, you cannot get any better then an in class discussion because of the fact that facial expressions and emotion cannot be felt at the extent on a post online as if you were discussing face to face.  During in class discussions you are also speaking freely of your mind instead of second guessing what you are typing on a post.  Although after doing this Twitter discussion for this assignment, I believe that it is easier to perform a discussion through twitter with the help of the hashtag rather than blackboard.  On blackboard you have to click on each link to bring you to a students actual post, on Twitter you click on the hashtag and everyones posts are right there with one click. 

Social Networking Sites

In today's world, social media plays a major role in our everyday life.  In my opinion, people spend at least an hour a day on their social media accounts, whether it be Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or even SnapChat.  These four are at the top of the social media mountain as they are the most popular. Although they are all at the top, each of these social media outlets are unique in their own way, however, they are very similar in the same sense.  Twitter's "tweets" are very similar to Facebooks "status post" as is Snapchat's "story" and Instagram's "story".  However, Facebook lets you do much more than these other social media outlets.  Through Facebook you can video chat, make phone calls, and even stream a video live for the whole Facebook community or your Facebook friends to see.  Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter do not give you those options.  Snapchat is mainly to take selfies or pictures of things and share them through your story or directly with a message to specific people.  Instagram is very similar in the sense that you can direct message someone a picture of some sort but you can also add a picture to your account for your friends(if your account is private) or the world to see.  Whenever posting on your Snapchat story, the photo or video only stays up for 24 hours and then comes off of your account.  That is Snapchats big difference from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram as when you post a photo on your profile on these three, it stays there unless you delete it, does not have a 24 hour limit.