You Know, back when it was fun?
Over time, just as most social networks do, Twitter began to lose it's appeal. Well, maybe it's just me. But after I got into one too many Twitter arguments or got pissed off at too many subtweets or some girl boosting her own ego, I thought to myself "Dang, I get upset myself on Twitter more than enjoy myself." But why? My argumenative nature? Partially. But what else?
I recently had a debate about this with my love. My reasoning was that Twitter is a haven that most people use to voice their thoughts and opinions to, and about, whoever's reading. And basically, Twitter is the equivalent of walking into a room and being able to read everyone's mind . Which in turn, would be a disaster. You would know what people are REALLY thinking about you, how you act, and how you dress. People start getting offended and blah blah blah and the next thing you know, REAL fights would break out, not Twitter Beef.
But then there's this-- his side was that it is honestly, "Just Twitter." You're really not supposed to take offence to anything that's tweeted, whether directed to you or not. And that Twitter isn't what people are thinking, it's what people want you to THINK they're thinking.
Immediately I opened my mouth to say "THAT'S THE DUMBEST THING I'VE EVER--" and then I stopped.
Wowzers.
It all makes sense.
Twitter in reality (and I use that term loosely) is just people collectively tweeting things they want others to think they are doing, cool enough to do, and cool enough to care about. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a girl tweet a snide remark about "being with some girl's man", when she's really not, or a guy that didn't give a rat's tail about sneakers, all of a sudden "Laying in bed thinking about the new Jordan release." Or the girl in an unhappy relationship always tweeting about how blissfully in love she is. Not to mention the overly promiscuous girl who's always tweeting about how she despises sluts. I mean come on.
Half my Timeline are people getting on Twitter with the intention of proving themselves in any way that is socially accepted at the time, and the other half is just tweeting anything that comes to their mind about what ever subject, which, in my book is equivalent to SPEAKING before you think, and is just as wrong (even though I do this.) And everybody with a Twitter account has posted at least one not-so-nice tweet with every intention of THAT person seeing it. And how many times have you ran a tweet by a friend before hitting send, because you wanted to make sure you were getting your point across EXACTLY right? Yeah. It's all very calculated.
Twitter was the best thing that happened to a person of less than stellar confidence. It gives them the perfect chance to hide behind their phone or computer screen and type whatever they want people to THINK their thinking. And that they're just that cool to do so, and in turn, gaining the respect of any person that follows them on Twitter and reads the lies. Quite sad.
In conclusion, even though Twitter was created to network, have fun, and be just Twitter, a lot of the time, it's not. You know it's getting out of hand with even the celebs are subtweeting each other (I know yall saw the recent Rihanna tweets!) Which is why these days I prefer Instagram. But, in time, I'm sure the same thing will happen to that too. The life cycle of a Social Network isn't really that long at all.
xoxo, India Hill
Also See: Twitter Taboos: The Socially Forbidden
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