Twitter Assignment

This assignment was my first-time using Twitter and I was amazed at how easy it was to learn how to navigate the platform and make posts. I was able post updates about the parade for about 20 minutes consecutively. All I had to do was hit the plus sign, type my thoughts out and hit “tweet” for all the world to see what I was thinking.

It was convenient for this assignment; however, considering we live in world with about 8 billion people, which means there are about 8 billion different opinions and perspectives, I don’t think it is always a positive thing that we can share out thoughts with the world so easily. Once again, there are many pros and cons to social media, but that’s not what we are here to talk about today.

Back to the assignment, it was a beautiful day for a parade. The sun was shining, the breeze was mild and there wasn’t a rain cloud insight. The streets were lined with children eager to fill their bags with candy and ONU alumni that were proud to call Ada home. The parade featured the Ada police and EMS, the ONU and Allen County band, many ONU clubs, Greek life and last but certainly not least, President Bauman.

It was great to see everyone out enjoying the day, but more importantly representing ONU so well. The parade wasn’t much more than a half-hour, but it was a half-hour full of polar bear pride. It was hard to keep up with the tweets at time because the parade was moving quickly, however I was still able to make an update about each major group that passed bye. Each tweet was topped with the hashtag “#onuhc22” to group it with others sharing about events going on around campus homecoming weekend. It was a great weekend to be a polar bear!