A true, hard lesson of the 'net.....................
2 years ago
"If you think no one cares about you...
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lei-lani watch a lot of Jeopardy. Ken Jennings will never be an Alex Trebek, but the kid's got some class to him. Anyway, we're watching the show a few weeks ago. (Some fool on Youtube manages to get "pre-show" tapes and i dunno how he does it...but if i ever walk into a bar and Jeopardy is on the TV, Im gonna make a LOT of money on bets)
So yeah, we're watching this one guy... with a Hitler haircut... i mean, there was just no other way to describe it, if he had the crazy mustache he could pass for a lookalike, thats how wild that hair was... and we knew it was a combover but we didnt care, because we were making wisecracks and comments every time he answered a question... and we were having fun mocking the hell out of him..................................
Well....... apparently a lot of people were. And not privately in their own homes, they were doing it on Facebook and Twitter and making this poor man feel awful... so bad, in fact, he ghosted himself off Twitter... thats how bad he felt.
and im sitting here telling Lani, "holy SHIT... well, we were mocking him too, he looked just like Hitler" and Lani sighs and says, "yes but we kept it to ourselves............................."
and this little light suddenly came on in my head and i thought....we would NEVER do something like that, never poke fun at someone out on the world stage so everyone could see it.... never Tweet out what we were thinking like that and hurt someone's feelings... and we'd wonder why the FUCK.... are people doing that in public?
and i get it, people are doing it to feel important and famous, maybe hopefully their post or Tweet gains attention and a follower or three, I get it.............................................
i guess i have a real hard time understanding why...its damned hard enough to be a real person these days and i dont understand for the life of me why the fuck your "virtual" you is so fucking important.....
Fuck the 'net.
lei-lani watch a lot of Jeopardy. Ken Jennings will never be an Alex Trebek, but the kid's got some class to him. Anyway, we're watching the show a few weeks ago. (Some fool on Youtube manages to get "pre-show" tapes and i dunno how he does it...but if i ever walk into a bar and Jeopardy is on the TV, Im gonna make a LOT of money on bets)So yeah, we're watching this one guy... with a Hitler haircut... i mean, there was just no other way to describe it, if he had the crazy mustache he could pass for a lookalike, thats how wild that hair was... and we knew it was a combover but we didnt care, because we were making wisecracks and comments every time he answered a question... and we were having fun mocking the hell out of him..................................
Well....... apparently a lot of people were. And not privately in their own homes, they were doing it on Facebook and Twitter and making this poor man feel awful... so bad, in fact, he ghosted himself off Twitter... thats how bad he felt.
and im sitting here telling Lani, "holy SHIT... well, we were mocking him too, he looked just like Hitler" and Lani sighs and says, "yes but we kept it to ourselves............................."
and this little light suddenly came on in my head and i thought....we would NEVER do something like that, never poke fun at someone out on the world stage so everyone could see it.... never Tweet out what we were thinking like that and hurt someone's feelings... and we'd wonder why the FUCK.... are people doing that in public?
and i get it, people are doing it to feel important and famous, maybe hopefully their post or Tweet gains attention and a follower or three, I get it.............................................
i guess i have a real hard time understanding why...its damned hard enough to be a real person these days and i dont understand for the life of me why the fuck your "virtual" you is so fucking important.....
Fuck the 'net.
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that whole "friend" bullshit on Facebook is whacked.
these ARENT YOUR FRIENDS. :D
you know...if Facebook had just SAID that in the 2000s....
we'd be cool with that.
i say let them know. I got nothing to hide.
Okay, the Secret Service nearly arrested me and i think some Al-Qaeda factions might want my head and i might have pissed off the Russian mob at some point but STILL.... i got nothing to hide. :D
well almost nothing! :D
It was coined in 2004, and it's held true ever since.
Or revamp it for today,. :D
But be honest, you wouldn't hesitate to excoriate famous right wing twits, no matter where they were.
"I've never wished anyone dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."
Off the top of my head, seriously, theres about fifty Id love to read about.
if they dont think anyone is gonna read the posts/tweets anyway..... why make them? :D
and youre right...all social media is these days are either special news or opinions we really didnt care about :D
Speaking from a place of both speculation and experience (or maybe that's me projecting)? Yelling into the void is cathartic >_>
we need that again.