Last week, I posted this article discussing the education problem that is currently plaguing Spain as a whole. Before the publication of the article, many Spaniards resorted to twitter to let out their frustrations about the education system in Spain and need for reform:
Its official, #Spanish #teachers are slackers http://t.co/asVgIQxIxO #Spain #OCED #schools #education #pupils #EU pic.twitter.com/wtgxLrnD4y
— Tom Carney (@tomcarney_) September 15, 2014
Spain should focus on improving English education on an early stage so that we can be competitive world wide. We speak crappy English.
— Doc White (@ramonblanquer) September 25, 2014
While these tweets may contain an opinion of the education problems that exist in Spain, they are clearly inaccurate. Both posts negatively critique Spain and the Spanish education system but do not provide a solution or any background information about the issues that are going on in Spain. Each tweet places the blame of Spain’s education deficits on a group of people/issue instead of admitting that like many other issues, it is a complicated problem with many variables involved.
Many people head to social media websites like Twitter to voice their displeasure or break a news story right as it happens. However, often times when this happens the tweets are either partially inaccurate or untrue at all. Since there is a 140 character limit on what you can voice on Twitter, many try to make each tweet concise, thus unable to share the full story. This leads to inaccurate information which many people online take as truth.
Always remember to check your sources and don’t believe everything you see on the internet!
