The Twitter Negativity Wave

Recently, a dude was killed over a suspected “tweef” or “e-beef” or whatever the heck you wanna call it (See Here). Such a situation got me to pondering: “Is Twitter Ruining Lives?” The mood on twitter has completely changed since I first joined. There was a lot of blog sharing, inspiration, punchline jokes, sass, but very little actual negativity. Every tweet was out of fun and jest. Now, there is a lot of finger pointing, subliminal tweeting (i effin hate subliminal tweeting), “meet me of the timeline” moments, and so on and so forth.

I have to wonder how serious people are taking Twitter. I find it interesting that people dictate what people should or should not tweet. I myself have been guilty of that. Then I remembered that good ol “UNFOLLOW” button. I think people forget that it exist… There’s even a block button.. *Shrug* Go figure, who knew.

I see “be real”, or “Keep it 100″ all the time.. What I’ve come to realize is, ITS THE INTERNET. Not at all anything like the real world.. People can choose to be whomever they want to be. I know, I know, you should be the same in any arena. I share that same value. But reality is that it will never be like that on twitter or any other social networking site. Real Names, Locations, backgrounds, moments, memories are not required on twitter.

True statement: You control your timeline. I for one do not appreciate someone sassing me for no reason on twitter and normally i will graciously sass them right the hell back. But it is this mentality that lead to a man losing his life. There are plenty of things that can get you killed in this world (justly or unjustly); Twitter should not be one of them.

Kind of all over the place with this blog (as I usually am), sue me…

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