I
enjoyed Facebook for personal friends and family; seeing pictures of my friends
on their holidays and keeping in touch with others that were just too far way
to get together with at short notice.
One
of these particular friends said to me recently that he finds social networking
makes us talk less. I tend to disagree with this statement entirely – at least
from personal experience. If there is a person I haven’t seen in ‘real life’
for a while I can already see what they’ve been up to and base our conversation
on catching up with them.
Facebook,
for me, is starting to feel over played and everything interesting that people
post has already been on Reddit for weeks in advance. I got twitter because,
frankly, I didn’t have the time to keep a track of everything going on and
wanted to supplement the casual articles I write on here. It feels a little
worthless to only post on here as most interest savvy people won’t even go to
each other’s home.com. You’d much rather see their short and sweet tweets or
like their Facebook to keep up with their feed.
There’s
a point when you hit a certain amount of ‘interested’ follows that almost every
tweet you post will have an imminent response. The problem is, unless you
already have a good idea of Twitter, you’re easily open to breaking the similar
rules that it follows:
•
If you misspell
ANYTHING you’re IMMEDIATELY trolled on it. In fact, it almost always ruins the
entire point of your tweet and in a day of predictive text for phone updates
this can be a fairly common occurrence.
•
If you post
something and delete it IMMEDIATELY it’s guaranteed that someone screen capped
what you posted. (I’m looking at you @JoeyBarton, @PopeBenedict)
•
If you make any
allusions about politics, race, sex, or religion you are opening a giant can of
worms that’s not even worth touching so just don’t do it.
•
If you stick to
the above you’ll eventually have tweets that boil down to your day-to-day life
and usually this means nothing all that interesting for your followers.
I
like to think I am a fairly well rounded adult but when I tweet about anything
other than video games or comic’s people seem to instantaneous attempt to find
a connection. It’s a typical response and one that usually shows that my
followers are only there for one reason – the next article or the next review.
Then
there are the people that feel the need to tell me that they’re unfollowing
me…. Really? In this day and age do you really feel the need to bash someone
online? As an old GIF once said ‘starting an argument on the internet is like
running in the Special Olympics’ (looks like I broke my own rule already). Contrary to popular belief, sharing your
thoughts and actually putting yourself out there does require some courage and
time/effort, and those people that post funny/interesting stuff do it because they
enjoy it and they actually want to. There is a massive difference between the
entertaining tweets of @kellyoxford and the boring stuff found on your own
profile.
They’re
doing YOU the favour.
You
have the freedom to follow, and you also have the freedom to not read it. Just
don’t announce that you’re spitting your dummy out and going home, because no
one ever liked that fucking kid in the first place.
What
the fuck.
And,
interestingly – my girlfriend will love this - 9/10 of the worst, most cynical,
nasty tweets come from the UK. You click the profile, and there it is - “Go
Manchester United.”
Anyways,
here are a few things that I’ll keep posting about, and if you don’t like it,
don’t read it.
SPORT
Now
I’m not the biggest sport’s fan ever or the most knowledgeable but I do enjoy a
good game of pretty much anything. Football and Basketball are where my real
passions lay but I’m fond of a whole selection of different sports. As I’m sure
you are aware I support Liverpool and Miami Heat, and I’ll happily explain why
to anyone who wants to know. I’ve followed both teams since as far back as I
can remember and have a lot of fond memories from each. I still regularly watch
the Champions League Final of Istanbul in 2005 where ‘Captain Fantastic’
brought us back from the edge of what might have been the most disheartening
display of football ever.
I
like to think that I’m a normal sort of sports fan - people have their opinions
and are welcome to them. The people that I despise are the ones that become
rude, obnoxious and personal because their team lost or because I tweeted that
their performance wasn’t up to their usual standard.
It’s
pathetic to hate on someone for telling the truth – and chances are you’ve said
the same thing about my team when we haven’t played so well either. Grow a
pair!
BOOKS/COMICs
I’ve
always been a massive comic fan, in particular of the Superhero variety, and
this has given me a wide range of personal feelings about characters or
storylines. I’m not saying I’m ever right but I have an opinion and if it’s not
something you agree with then reply with what you think. I love a health
discussion on these sorts of subjects and it seems to be one of the few things
in life that everyone is always divided on.
On
top of comics I love all types of books, except anything about love, and always
seems to be digging into something or other. I’m currently running through ‘A
Dance with Dragons’ which (for those who don’t know) is the fifth book in a
‘Song of Fire and Ice’ sage. It’s actually the first time in ages that I’ve
felt like I’m reading something where I don’t know what will happen next and
I’d recommend it to you all. It’s far better than the TV series and has a lot more
depth than people give it credit for.
VIDEO
GAMES
If
you’ve followed me on twitter or read this blog before you’ll know, as the
title suggests, that I am a little bit of a Video Game fan. I’ve played games
since I was old enough to stand and don’t imagine that will ever change. I love
escapism in any form and the idea that I can be wandering a fantasy world one
second and a futuristic steam punk city the next thrills me no end.
I
don’t really have a favourite genre anymore but in the day and age I appreciate
content more than ever. Too many games are released these days with a 6 hour
single player and a weak multiplayer that any 30 hour epic gets my money first.
I don’t get the time to play as much as I have in the past so I want to make
sure my money is well spent.
Obviously
I loathed twitter, but now I love it so add me up and lets be friends forever
@somemanwithplan (remember there’s no ‘A’)
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