{"id":45755,"date":"2018-03-22T22:15:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T02:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45755"},"modified":"2020-08-05T22:15:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T02:15:55","slug":"individual-tweets-are-somehow-news-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45755","title":{"rendered":"Individual tweets, are somehow news today"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll be a shocker to know that I abhor social media, and that I pretty much think it\u2019s a metaphorical cancer on the entire god damn planet.\u00a0 I feel like just about everything terrible in the world now can be traced back to something related to social media, or that social media inevitably takes most things and somehow inexplicably finds every single way to make them worse than in which they started.\u00a0 Behind screens and occasional veils of anonymity, either people feel emboldened to be shitheads, or perhaps their true selves emerge when they feel the safest, outside of arm\u2019s reach to the people they choose to fling stones at.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bottom line is that social media tends to steer things into the tragically negative, rather than the one out of a hundred cases in which social media manages to do something good, to which the they\u2019ll still get twisted into misguided and greedy intentions by association.<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem is, social media has become so prevalent and commonplace in the world today, it\u2019s become a primary source for news and general content.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always made the analogy that social media has turned the entire planet into America Online<\/em>, except that instead of subscribers holed in their houses looking for poorly photoshopped pictures of Kathy Ireland or Teri Hatcher naked, the vast majority of the modern world is connected to AOL, with shitty screen names, and the capability to IM one another or the entire world as a whole, at any given moment they feel like it, and they most certainly capitalize on such immediacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, whereas in the past if celebrities, athletes or known figures were AOL subscribers, like hell would they let just anyone know what their screen names were.\u00a0 The last thing they would want is to have their email box pinging YOU\u2019VE GOT MAIL every two seconds from fans, admirers and haters to have access to a direct line of communication with them.\u00a0 Somehow in this day and age it\u2019s quite the contrary, and people who are known can\u2019t not broadcast their online handles enough, with Twitter handles being the subtitle on just about any source of communication, and a seeming requisite space requirement on every form of marketing these days to account for a Twitter handle, Instagram handle, Facebook URL and whatever other social media platforms a person or entity feels the need to shill themselves on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, I\u2019m veering off point, as is often the norm when I rant, because my disdain at what started this train of thought snowballed a little off the original rails.\u00a0 But I was looking through my news feed this morning, and for some reason, surprisingly high on the morning\u2019s recommended reads, was this link about AN AMAZING TWITTER CONVERSATION<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 I mean that\u2019s already an oxymoron in itself because almost nothing on fucking Twitter can really be classified as amazing in my opinion, but I guess I was curious to see what fluffy bullshit could possibly be constituted as \u201cnews.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was a story about some random ordinary guy who responded to a random ordinary girl who said \u201cremind me in seven years to not have kids,\u201d seven years ago, and told her not to have kids.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Somehow, a random guy actually responding to a request, in the requested window of time is considered news.\u00a0 Sure, we\u2019re conditioned these days to believe that a random guy doing it construes him as \u201ccreepy,\u201d but what it really boils down to is that some guy fulfilled a request from a stranger, seven years later.\u00a0 On Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n

My eyes rolled hard at this stupidity, but I soldered on with my news feed, and it took all of the time it takes Vin Diesel to drive a quarter mile before I came across another \u201cstory\u201d that ultimately began with, surprise, another god damn tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Granted, it\u2019s a little bit higher up on the social ladder, featuring a C-list sports personality in Bill Simmons tangling up with D-list NBA hanger-on Dwyane Wade, where Simmons rehashed an old beef and accused Wade of unintentionally-intentionally hurting a Celtics player back, also seven years ago, and took a jab at him hoping he wouldn\u2019t do it again if the Heat get paired with the Celtics in this year\u2019s playoffs.\u00a0 To which Wade basically responds to, prompting Simmons to make a fluffy response, and then this is turned into a story by the scintillating content creation from Complex<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

News, everyone.\u00a0 This shit is news.\u00a0 People\u2019s tweets are news, while an inadequately disproportionate amount of coverage is being given to bombers in Austin, shooters in Maryland, and a litany of global events that have direct impact or repercussions, affecting the United States, and perhaps your actual states or home towns.\u00a0 But nobody believes anything important, because we have a clown brainwashing everyone in sight into believing that all news is fake, and we\u2019re left with a society that abjectly just tries to ignore it, instead relegating themselves to caring about people\u2019s individual fucking tweets.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s times like this where I hate the world we live in today, and that most certainly fucking hate social media.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have a legitimate Twitter account, and I\u2019m pretty minimal with my Facebook activity, mostly on account of the fact that nobody knows how to communicate in any other fashion than through it anymore.\u00a0 But make no mistake, I think the world would be a much better place without either, but obviously that\u2019s not going to happen any time soon, and even if it did, something worse would probably take their places.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now pardon me while I try to pass the rest of my day by seeing what profound effect that a tweet from New Zealand, a tweet from Croatia, and a Tweet from Argentina is going to have on the entire planet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll be a shocker to know that I abhor social media, and that I pretty much think it\u2019s a metaphorical cancer on the entire god damn planet.\u00a0 I feel like just about everything terrible in the world now can be traced back to something related to social media, or that social media inevitably … Continue reading Individual tweets, are somehow news today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,156,146,124],"class_list":["post-45755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-social-media","tag-triggered","tag-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45757,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45755\/revisions\/45757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}