People Who Shit On Everything
Posted on Monday, August 01, 2011 @ 18:59 CET
There has been something bothering me for a while now about how people "behave" on Twitter. It can become this cesspool of negativity which, on occasion, I am also guilty of contributing to and I am trying to get better.
It reminds me of this Louis CK bit on Conan.
Now this isn't a constant thing of course, otherwise I wouldn't still be using Twitter but occasionally events occur, products are announced/released, something goes down and it rears its ugly head. This includes friends and people I respect. And it just sickens me.
I was going to tweet the following:
"people who shit on everything - please stfu. this has been a public service announcement."The snark level is off the charts. After reflecting on it I realized that it is completely inappropriate of me to ask anyone to self-censor because who the fuck am I. Thankfully on Twitter I have the power of the unfollow button. Silent yet effective.
And there's no reason to tell them - that's just rude.
So I spent the next 10 minutes doing just that, knowing that anything of any interest will surely bubble to the surface. And if not, I'm fine with that too.
So to those people. Its not you, its your negativity. And it very well may be my misinterpretation, but that's good enough for me.
Do not want.
- paulo
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Comments:
Indeed. It's something that's been bugging me for a while, and something I've been working on personally. I took a week off of twitter the other week for this reason. I think that in a lot of ways, twitter lends itself to snark, if only because of the character limitation. I find Google+ is a little better in some ways because you can actually elaborate, and the threading keeps your message alive for a while, making your responsible for what you say more than a tweet.
# August 01, 2011 19:16 CET
That's a really good point, I hadn't thought of it but Google+ does suffer less from that and actually invites conversation rather than soundbites.
Maybe I should try a week off Twitter. I wonder if I'd make it :)
# August 01, 2011 19:41 CET
I don't like seeing myself become negative, on Twitter or anywhere, but often it's like you're just watching it develop in you and you don't know how to confront it in yourself, or you're overworked and don't have the space to refocus your attention on it. When you finally see that it's happening, and find a way to turn it off, it's like having a rest.
# August 02, 2011 08:11 CET
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