Social media explained
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei tweets: “If Twitter censors, I’ll stop using Twitter.”
(h/t Xeni Jardin for the rough translation.)
You go, Ai Weiwei.
Today, I posted this facebook screenshot of someone who posted a status via Twitter. The status was:
“I’m proud to b a teacher. But there r ppl way too hype bout their job/career claimin its most impt. Psh. Kiss my…”
I captioned it “This is why we suck at our own language.” It looks like anon didn’t like that, though, so I got this message:
“I just looked at your post with the screen shot of the teacher on Facebook via Twitter. Your comment, “This is why we suck at our own language.” might be more appropriate if she weren’t on a social networking site that has a 140 character limit. Also, I hate to have to be the one to point out that what one does or says on Twitter is not necessarily indicative of anything in their everyday life. You failed at making a snide comment about the state of society.”
So, since I enjoy being inflammatory, I decided to test anon dearest’s theory that one can’t say anything intelligent on Twitter. These are the results. (If the writing’s too small, here’s a larger version.)
XKCD wins life again.
Those are twitter stockings.
You can buy them for $18 at etsy.
Also, Twitter’s Halloween > Yours
