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My Twitter Is A Day Old And I Already Fucking Hate It
Amy Rose Spiegel :: Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 5:30 pm
Last week, I was talking to some new acquaintances at a party. Our conversation turned to Twitter, which seems more or less unavoidable lately. I feel as though I’m always having to throw around the phrases “social media,” “shrinking attention span,” and so on. The simple fact that I have the same conversation with so many different people, and so frequently, probably speaks to the exact condition we’re discussing: People on the whole have very little time or energy to delve too deeply into broad, unique topics.  Instead, we all talk to each other about Twitter (for some, the conversation is had on Twitter itself) because it’s easy.
Anyway, these people, who, please keep in mind, I had just met a few minutes earlier, asked me what my Twitter name was. I told them I didn’t have one, and they gave me a long, pitying look before smiting me like the Luddite that I am.
“You’re a professional and you don’t have Twitter?  You’re slacking,” one said. “It’s really stupid not to, especially as a freelancer.” Assholes, right? I couldn’t believe that someone I had just met would call me stupid for not wanting to take part in a social networking tool that most use to follow celebrities and project their own narcissism, but I guess that’s what Twitter breeds. As of today, though, those people are my peers. Ironically, I had to sign up more or less for the reasons that those ass princes had suggested, meaning work.
My friend Nick summed up some of my frustrations succinctly when he asked me, “So, what’s your hilarious Twitter name going to be?” The culture of Twitter also ropes ordinary people into amateur comedy hour. I’m not into watching a ton of half-wits offer up their drollest observations on day-to-day life in the hopes that someone will laugh at - oops, I mean RT - it. Everyone’s shilling in one way or another - either for attention, or, like me, for self-promotion, which I’m sure is vastly more annoying.
I guess what I’m trying to say is, follow me @AmyRosary.
Fuck Twitter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Your Mom June 9th, 2010 at 11:45 pm