The Perils of twitter? While it must be said that twitter can be great fun, there can also be a kind of bleakness to it. I love twitter, the characters that appear daily in front of your eyes are diverse; some kind, some crude, some witty, some profound, some fragile or paranoid. And you can take it or leave it, pop it back in its box when you`ve finished with it. I can`t imagine even envisaging that such a thing would exits when I was a youngster. Even mobile phones were a thing of science fictions fantasy. I mean, who`d of thunk it in the old days?
But the world of social networking can be a confusing one, and networks like twitter even more so. I find with facebook, a good proportion of my friends are friends from real life. Old school friends and work colleagues etc, with the odd friend of a friend thrown in for good measure. But twitter followers on the other hand, are made up predominantly from strangers.
Now sometimes these strangers start to become a little more, you begin to look out for them, share a joke, problems and a connection is made. Now one of my particular friends who I have chatted to for some years now, and shared confidences and some pretty good banter, has disappeared from my timeline. Strange, but on closer inspection, it seems this friend has blocked me and suddenly protected their tweets. I don`t even remember having a bad word or disagreement with this person so am quite mystified. Its not the end of the world, and I`m not particularly upset about this. But I am curious as to why someone would do this. I expect the person has their reasons, or it could just be that they`re a nutter! But I do think that an emotionally fragile or vulnerable person could be quite distressed by the potential transience of the social network relationship. SO THE MORAL OF THIS STORY! Get your phone out and ring some of your old friends for a chat. There was a lot to be said for pre-mobile/twitter/facebook days when you had to get out of your bedroom and actually go out in order to socialise! *sighs a nostalgic sigh*
No comments:
Post a Comment