One major improvement that Baruch College can make is to get its students more involved in the student life. Baruch itself is known for being a commuter school and I can certainly agree with that being a transfer student from a big campus school. Comparing to out of town large campus schools, Baruch lacks that ability to bring its students more involved. So, one major change could be a use of social media to get everyone involved. The school can invest and develop a very resourceful platform in which the social can promote all kinds of news and events which students can attend and generally be aware of. For example, if the school organizes a concert, it can run a very well organized campaign to promote that. In the end, not only students will all come together, but the school can also benefit financially and from getting more followers and likes. Also worth pointing out that the school can use its developed social media platforms to inform its students and faculty about changes in the university's policies and reforms. So overall, using platforms of new media can only be beneficial to our school.
While the new media has been very useful impactful in our day and age, we constantly face a threat to our privacy. While social media platforms with its huge amounts of users are always growing, cybersecurity has certainly been lacking a real protection. Just during the past couple of years, we've had major news about platforms such as Google and Facebook wrongly using its users' saved data including personal information, preferences, pictures, and even location. What's even more worse is when we know that they sell our information for billions of dollars and the companies that invest heavily into obtaining people's data make their business decisions and aim at certain audiences based on the obtained information. Still to this day, we hear news about data breaching which puts us a society in a great jeopardy. It's not at all comfortable to know that your information and even info such as what kind of things you go shopping for are all out there in the open. It'...
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