What's On Antonio's Mind

There are people who want others to see them in a certain light, when in reality they aren't exactly what they are made out to be. I am not one of those people. Honestly, what you see on my social media is what you get. I have never been one to look a certain way on social media but you get a completely different person in reality. Now, there are some exceptions to certain social media, like LinkedIn for example.  LinkedIn is obviously where you have a lot of professionals looking at your profile. These professionals could be potential employers, so of course I want to look professional.  Via Tenor Gifs Although I am not my 100% true authentic self, this is still who I am. In professional settings, I am myself. I believe that everyone has different aspects of themselves that fit certain environments. I love to write, specifically about sports. Given that this is the case, I have articles I've written about sports on my LinkedIn page for people to see. Sports is a passion of mi...

There have been some instances where I've caught myself getting into a heated argument over social media. The most recent one I can account for was over Instagram, where there were many people that had strong opinions about this one particular post. Let me tell you what happened.  The post of "controversy", which it wasn't, was a video of this African American teacher getting told by one of her students, who was also African American", that she had gotten accepted in to Princeton. Obviously, the teacher was over the moon about it. She went over to give the girl a hug saying how proud she was and things like that, and commented "and you're a black girl" and gave her another hug after she said that. The line, "and you're a black girl", was what caused the backlash on social media. All of the people who commented on that line saying they had an issue with it were White people. The arguments they were saying were things like, "Why men...

 There are a lot of reasons why we use the social media we use. I have a variety of social media platforms for a plethora of reasons. To me, however, I did not realize how much I benefit from certain social media for certain things. Dr. Yunkang Yang really opened my eyes to the affordance of each social media to me.  For starters, I did not know what affordance was. I now know that affordance refers to the action possibilities provided to the actor by the environment. How this pertains to social media is that the affordance Facebook gives to me is being able to promote content for my job. The affordance Instagram gives me is being able to have entertainment and to stay updated with friends and family.  To get more specific with each, I'll go into what affordance each app gives me. With Instagram, I follow a lot of sports content. This is how I stay up to date with all the sports news and literally everything sports related. I also stay connected with friends and family on...