Actually Tweeting?

Well here goes Week 3 in the class but Week 2 on Twitter. So far, it has been quite a new experience to actually tweet my own content rather than constantly like and retweet, but this week we had to respond to other students. I am typically not used to tweeting anything of my own because I fear that I may say something dumb, but it's actually not as bad as I thought. I feel like the only difficult part for me when it comes to tweeting and responding is trying to find something new to talk about or something that I really resonate with or feel strongly passionate about.

Anyway... this week I found a new account that I really loved and I feel like more people should check it out. It is called World Animal Protection US (@MoveTheWorldUS) on Twitter. I felt connected with this account the most because it gave a good mix of positive tweets about animals while also making sure the public is educated about current situations like how dolphins should not be kept in a tank for people's entertainment. The majority of the tweets that I spent my time retweeting were mainly about animal issues and how humans have negatively impacted them and their habitats. I chose to focus my platform on these issues because they already don't get enough coverage on the media so I wanted my account to be a place where people can come to be educated on certain matters. I also found myself responding my peers that had similar tweets, except for one of them which was about how octopuses have the ability to feel pain emotionally and physically. I thought it was so interesting considering they are one of the smartest creatures when it comes to the ocean and they are the masters of escape, so it didn't surprise me when I found out that their mind was capable of allowing them to feel such things.

I think one of the best tweets I had this week was a retweet from an account called NYCLASS (@nyclass). This is because it was about the carriage horses that are typically seen around New York. These animals are typically seen all fancy and classy looking so that people can profit off of their carriage rides, however, the tweet exposed the reality behind how they get treated. Despite how beautiful and appealing they may look in the street, it is another story behind the scenes. The tweet showed that the horse owners keep these poor animals in tiny horse stalls that don't even provide them enough space to lay down properly. I felt like this is something we typically don't see, as consumers, and it is important that we spread the word and advocate for them.

Another thing that we did this week was respond to 3 other peers' blogs and I was so impressed by the three that I saw. The three classmates that I responded to were Christine Nguyen, Benjamin Yang, and Vivian Pham. Each and every one of their blogs were so well written, but casual at the same time. I was able to feel how passionate they were about animals and they were also able to word things in a way that completely summed up the main points on certain issues. A statement in one of Christine's blogs that particularly stuck with me was "intelligence is not just knowledgable; it's something that's fluid [...]." This stood out because it applies to so many people and things in life.