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Cameron Jankowski's Why I Don T Use Twitter

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In the summer of 2012, Cameron Jankowski took his freedom of speech to another level when he publicly posted a video of himself urinating on a plate of nachos in the vicinity of which he was employed. Problems such as these occur daily when having access to social media platforms. While barely having enough characters to type anything of value, being fooled into believing false information, and the potential to ruin your career, these are all problems faced when joining the wildly popular site, Twitter. Failure to realize that your posts can be publicly viewed by anyone is just one of the contributing factors in which people may lose their jobs due to what they are posting on Twitter. Nowadays, it is not uncommon for potential employees …show more content…

As Devin Coldewey had quoted in his blog post "Why I Don't Use Twitter", he stated: "What can be said in 140 characters is either trivial or abridged; in the first case it would be better not to say it at all, and in the second case it would be better to give it the space it deserves." It is hard to imagine what could possibly be held of value when tweeting something with such a confined amount of space but it lessens even more when posting videos and/or pictures. Your character limit becomes increasingly small and you are left with barely any room to say exactly what you had planned. Most tweets consist of emojis and nothing but complete nonsense that have little to no effect on what occurs in someone's everyday life. Twitter is one of the most popular social media outlets in the world, having the ability to connect people from all over the world. Though the platform may have its perks, problems such as being limited to using very few characters, being fooled by fraudulent users, and being a detriment to your future career are all risks that one must choose to take. While Twitter may offers many benefits, one must realize all of the consequences that they may be faced with when joining the social media

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