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The Twitter Dilemma

Posted by Josh in General Posts on September 16, 2009 | 4 Comments

I’ve been a member of this pretty popular site called Twitter for quite a while now. I don’t exactly remember the day I joined, but it was definitely before it blew up and became super popular among idiots. With the continuous infusion of people I deem face kick worthy, it brings up a huge dilemma and an inner struggle that I fear will never end. Is this dilemma between me and the boring messes? Not quite. These days I seem to be more angry at the Twitter bashers than the Twitter borers.

You see, there was once a time when I would gladly jump on board with these bashers, and probably end up being their king. That time, of course, was August of last year, when I first called out all the people who post completely inane “I just ate a sandwich” talk. At that point, it was fresh and cool to bash these goddamn borings. Now, over a year later, everyone is jumping on the “fuck Twitter” bandwagon and it’s quite upsetting to me.

I get it, you’re allowed to hate Twitter because in your mind it’s just a bunch of non-creative douche baggers. The only problem with calling out a bunch of non-creative people is that you’re not even creative enough to sign up and post creative, humorous and interesting stuff, which makes you a worse than the “picking up the kids from school” bunch. Well, that and because they all have the same jokes, which usually includes updates being called “twats”.

Another huge argument from the haters is that they simply don’t care about the boring stuff people do, like following a bunch of boring people is mandatory. I also guarantee that most people who think this way have a Facebook account, which pretty much has the exact same goddamn purpose, plus ultra annoying things like Mafia Wars and countless pictures of shirtless dudes holding red plastic cups.

I guess I’m just angry because instead of actually looking into it and seeing that it can be extremely useful and entertaining, they just jump on the “It’s popular, therefore I’m against it” bandwagon. If you want to follow self-important, annoying people then that’s what you’ll get. It’s essentially anything you want it to be.

The thing that’s insane to me is that people get completely riled up while talking about how stupid Twitter is. These are probably the same people who signed up, tried to think of something funny to say, then had their brain explode into angry glob of ignorance.

With that being said, there are some legitimate reasons to hate Twitter, namely people who get way too into it. You can usually tell these people because they follow thousands more people than follow them back, and they use words like “tweeple”. The first time I saw someone use the term “tweeple” I threw my laptop into my garbage disposal and jumped off my balcony. Sure, it was an odd reaction, but I stand by it. Plus, I soon realized that these people are great to become friends with because they give you a never ending stream of nonsense to continually ridicule… Which is what Twitter is really all about, for me.

Sure, I could be extremely wrong here and I could be a complete douche for being a member, but that’s why I keep this blog going, just so I have the “well, I just use Twitter to pimp my blog posts” excuse.