Blog About Twitter

Twitter is very different in its own way and that is because of its casual vibe. Blackboard on the other hands is more of a formal discussion where students have to be careful of their grammar and the way they approach one another. On Blackboard when having discussions, I tend to go back and forth on a post revising it until it seems good enough to post and whether or not the language fits in with the discussion. On Twitter though, grammar, spelling, and punctuation don't seem to matter. You say what you have to say without thinking of it much. There is also a tweet limit of 280 characters which allows for discussions to get straight to the point without adding too much information. Compared to an in-class discussion I believe those are the ones where you can't plan on what you're going to say. There's no time to revise, unlike blackboard and twitter where you can take time to think about what you post. In-class discussion is more to the point and doesn't allow for much time to think. In my opinion, if class and blackboard discussion were more like twitter ones than a lot of people would be more comfortable with sharing their thoughts and ideas with one another because of the overall setting and feel of the social networking site.