The reasoning behind this title: nothing more than I just wanted to talk about Twitter but didn't wanna title the post "Twitter." I suppose it stems from my self imposed need to be creative. Or perhaps my ridiculous obsession with plays on words (old man humor is my forte).
In any event, Twitter is a fairly new social network for me. I created an account awhile ago just so that I could say I had one. But I was never really taught how it worked. Now that I have officially been taught how it works (thank you Julie Hennrikus), my life has become this never ending status update competition. I find myself playing the "can I come up with a status that warrants an @ mention?" game. Or the "can I create the next super trending hashtag?" game. It's awful, really. Not to mention super nerdy. But, after pondering how active my cyber life has become, I've come to realize that I have been playing this game for years already on FB. Only it was a strive to obtain comments and likes instead of retweets and @ mentions (hence the URL of my blog, "likemystatus" [WHO AM I?])
Also, I find myself feeling particularly blue if I don't receive an @ mention in a long time. So I make it a point to be super active on Twitter until I get one. This begs the question, is this really what Twitter is for? To bolster some false sense of self worth? Or perhaps it isn't false at all! After all, self worth is only what you create it to be, right? So I suppose I could keep traipsing through cyber world as I am, fighting to retain some form of real self worth in this unreal social world we spend much of our time living in. Or I could just rest assured that I'm an interesting person with the comfiest corner in cyber space and who gives a damn if I get likes or @ mentions. I, for one, choose the latter.
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