We're all over Twitter
“New Tweet!” “Oh Hello little bird, what a bright sunny day it is today!” “OMG I have homework due in tomorrow, but idc #YOLO #Selfie <33333”
Yes, my IQ has lowered within the first sentence of this article. Yours has probably lowered just by reading it.
When I hear tweets, I think of the darling young birds that perch on my windowsill every morning singing their twittering songs in the morning drizzle and dew. In my dreams I still hope they might gracefully swoop through my window and complete my chores…
That’s not what everyone else hears when they hear ‘tweets’ now. Now my idea of birdsongs are full of obnoxious dweebs taking their arrogant pouts to a whole new level. There are grammar crimes being committed all over the globe.
So what was Twitter even made for? Like every innocent and naïve social media manager might assume, Twitter was a way to bring people together to have fun! To keep you up to date with your favourite celebs! To notify of new “life changing” statements of what your friends are up to. Use fulfilling hashtags to keep with the trends of the Earth! What are people talking about today?
All I can say to that is #Lies
I remember in my earlier years of education, when people had the decency to speak to others face to face, not with an electronic screen. Now it’s all about how fights could break out just because of a simple phrase less than 140 characters long, or when a celeb follows a certain person, and their best friend gets so jealous they disown them. Maybe even slyly talking behind their back about how much they bragged about it. Because we all care so much that Harry Styles electronically followed you, and will probably ignore all of your tweets from there onwards. Does it make you a close friend to the boyband star? I don’t think so.
Celebrity stalkers tend to, instead of asking very good questions and getting interesting answers, spam with requests to follow and favourite users within the first 5 seconds of tweeting. Instead of decent connections they wish to make with their loyal worshippers, the hymns of prayer towards them aren’t with song and praise, but with “Follow me!” and “Please retweet this so I know you’re seeing my tweets!” My, oh my. Is this all you care about? An unrealistic, electronically functioning action that will gain you no achievements worth keeping. Spending pointless hours on end just trying to hopelessly gain their attention for a tiny little push of a button that somehow represents an unrequited, passionate love?
And this is how the human race spends its time? Precious time you have living the gift of life, experiencing the joys, and then this instead of the real world around you? Our leisure time is dominated by the use of social media. Pointless technology that has brainwashed us! Yes us! Earth’s most dominant species has been overcome by a small invention that was once used to communicate. Look into someone’s real eyes instead of their Twitter profile picture, speak to them and get to know them instead of stalking their bio! Say more to them than the puny 140 characters can offer! Tell them you love them; don’t tweet them. Spend actual time with them instead of instant-messaging all day long. Where’s our sense of humanity? And where’s actual listening to others?
What will become of us in the future? Deprived, life-starved creatures who re-enact Lord of the Flies when the Wi-Fi connection switches off? Is Twitter essential to life? More than family and friends and grades?
A generation of disrespectful and sadistic “haters” who spend their lives tweeting, cackling profanities and despicable comments towards others to gain attention towards themselves has been spawned. How pathetic.
Wake up. Embrace this world, live your life in the real world. Not on a gadget. Because, at the end of the day… How did you spend your life? #ToTheFullest ? I doubt it.
Lauren Smith, Year 12
Are you a fan of Twitter? Tell us what you love about it! Email your views to csavage@heathfieldcc.co.uk or afowler09@heathfieldcc.co.uk
Yes, my IQ has lowered within the first sentence of this article. Yours has probably lowered just by reading it.
When I hear tweets, I think of the darling young birds that perch on my windowsill every morning singing their twittering songs in the morning drizzle and dew. In my dreams I still hope they might gracefully swoop through my window and complete my chores…
That’s not what everyone else hears when they hear ‘tweets’ now. Now my idea of birdsongs are full of obnoxious dweebs taking their arrogant pouts to a whole new level. There are grammar crimes being committed all over the globe.
So what was Twitter even made for? Like every innocent and naïve social media manager might assume, Twitter was a way to bring people together to have fun! To keep you up to date with your favourite celebs! To notify of new “life changing” statements of what your friends are up to. Use fulfilling hashtags to keep with the trends of the Earth! What are people talking about today?
All I can say to that is #Lies
I remember in my earlier years of education, when people had the decency to speak to others face to face, not with an electronic screen. Now it’s all about how fights could break out just because of a simple phrase less than 140 characters long, or when a celeb follows a certain person, and their best friend gets so jealous they disown them. Maybe even slyly talking behind their back about how much they bragged about it. Because we all care so much that Harry Styles electronically followed you, and will probably ignore all of your tweets from there onwards. Does it make you a close friend to the boyband star? I don’t think so.
Celebrity stalkers tend to, instead of asking very good questions and getting interesting answers, spam with requests to follow and favourite users within the first 5 seconds of tweeting. Instead of decent connections they wish to make with their loyal worshippers, the hymns of prayer towards them aren’t with song and praise, but with “Follow me!” and “Please retweet this so I know you’re seeing my tweets!” My, oh my. Is this all you care about? An unrealistic, electronically functioning action that will gain you no achievements worth keeping. Spending pointless hours on end just trying to hopelessly gain their attention for a tiny little push of a button that somehow represents an unrequited, passionate love?
And this is how the human race spends its time? Precious time you have living the gift of life, experiencing the joys, and then this instead of the real world around you? Our leisure time is dominated by the use of social media. Pointless technology that has brainwashed us! Yes us! Earth’s most dominant species has been overcome by a small invention that was once used to communicate. Look into someone’s real eyes instead of their Twitter profile picture, speak to them and get to know them instead of stalking their bio! Say more to them than the puny 140 characters can offer! Tell them you love them; don’t tweet them. Spend actual time with them instead of instant-messaging all day long. Where’s our sense of humanity? And where’s actual listening to others?
What will become of us in the future? Deprived, life-starved creatures who re-enact Lord of the Flies when the Wi-Fi connection switches off? Is Twitter essential to life? More than family and friends and grades?
A generation of disrespectful and sadistic “haters” who spend their lives tweeting, cackling profanities and despicable comments towards others to gain attention towards themselves has been spawned. How pathetic.
Wake up. Embrace this world, live your life in the real world. Not on a gadget. Because, at the end of the day… How did you spend your life? #ToTheFullest ? I doubt it.
Lauren Smith, Year 12
Are you a fan of Twitter? Tell us what you love about it! Email your views to csavage@heathfieldcc.co.uk or afowler09@heathfieldcc.co.uk
