last night a friend of mine spent a decent amount of time trying to convince me to create a twitter account. i fought the idea off as much as i could, telling him that twitter is a stupid idea, just another annoying device created so that people could share way too much information about everything that i didn't really care about, namely their every waking move. he fought back adamantly, saying that twitter is the main source of information these days and that anything that happens, major or minor, twitter is the first place you'll hear about it (and you'll know much faster than your local news station could tell you). he was 100% right - and that's the sad part. it's actually ridiculous how much information, correction - personal information, you can find on the internet, mainly on twitter and facebook. how ridiculous can it get? i thought high-school drama and unforgivable grammatical mistakes coming up on every status in my "news feed" was mind-numbingly irritating enough. but today, everyone, the ridiculousness reached its brink: a friend of mine (or rather, one of those acquaintances that i'm friends with on facebook) was updating his status and posting new pictures... from a jail cell.
i know you're baffled, there are several questions popping into your head, and you probably don't believe me, but it's true. at one point while he was sitting in this jail cell, still fully armed with some sort of mobile device for some odd reason, he says, "there is nothing cool about sitting in a jail cell! nothing. but since i'm board (his mistake, not mine) and tryna pass the time..." and proceeds to upload three photographs of the tin toilet and his view of some beautiful rays of sunshine from behind those metal bars.
way to be a hypocrite, kid. tell everyone it's not cool to be in jail, but upload some photographs for the simple sake of getting some sort of rise out of the facebook world like comments telling you to "stand strong" and "be tough" and asking what you did to end up in there, all while you make some ambiguous replies talking about how you're "just a black man trying to get by but the law won't let you live." it's all just a pathetic attempt to get some much desired "street cred" - just something to increase his "cool." ugh, spare me.
he fought back adamantly, saying that twitter is the main source of information these days and that anything that happens, major or minor, twitter is the first place you'll hear about it (and you'll know much faster than your local news station could tell you). he was 100% right
ReplyDeleteSee thats a smart friend you got there.