Thursday, November 22, 2012
Touchy Topic Thursday - Twitter Beef
Topic as Submitted - What you got to say about all these people cussing and beating people over what they say about them on twitter?*
Cocoa Bisou joined facebook yesterday and tossed a few random post up on there, one of which was K Michelle cursing out one of the "fans" at her own show (while she was on stage) over something they said on twitter.
I heard of K Michelle before, but I didn't really know who she was, and after I saw her acting up, I didn't want to know.
For the life of me I cannot figure why she was on twitter during her own concert and why she felt it appropriate or necessary to curse out someone who had come to see her. Even if they came to talk trash, it was evident there was something that fascinated them about her because they were there. I assumed it could have been just a publicity stunt.
But there was no publicity stunt in the video I watched earlier in the year where a young black female dragged another young woman from her doorway and repeatedly stomped on her head over some "racist" remark tweeted.
It is more and more obvious to me that people do not understand the reason for the delete, block, remove, and in this case, the unfollow option. If there is someone saying things that you don't like, remove them from your social site. Simple, easy, effective and no one loses sleep at night.
I may follow someone today whose tweets are hilarious and entertaining, then five days later those hilarious tweets have become repetitive and there are only so many times I can laugh at the same joke, therefore I unfollow them. More likely than not, they don't care, they have some thousands more followers, half of which they probably purchased.
I have not had the issue of anyone saying anything about me, but then again, hey, I have as much followers as a bored housewives book club. But I have come across people that will dislike me on the first encounter for whatever reason. Let them say what they want, I know who I am and I am happy with myself.
Old people went to war and fought, lost limbs and died for the freedom we enjoy. part of that freedom is allowing people to say whatever they want. And I thank God for that, or I probably could not even be writing this post now.
People who feel the need to constantly defend themselves and lash out every time someone says something negative about them or their family, or their country or their race has unresolved issues they need to address.
I love me some me...I don't care what they say about me on twitter or anywhere else. If I want beef, I look for it at the supermarket, not on the internet.
Bisous!!xoxo
*Please note the topics are written as received. My Barbadian reader wrote in Bajan dialect. I will fix spelling mistakes, but rarely will I change/correct grammar. This blog is for everyone of every background to feel free to send me their topics and questions.
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No matter how technologically advance we get, our human nature, both good and bad will always show through. People beefed before Twitter and Facebook, people will beef long after Twitter and Facebook have faded to oblivion to be replaced by whatever the geeks come up with.
ReplyDeleteA device that's implanted into your head that shares your thoughts with your friend and family online.
Yeah, I can see a lot a beef with that one.