Most of you know I tweet and follow all those who follow me. The only way you get a one-way ticket to unfollow land is if I happen to catch a few of your tweets that are deemed inappropriate by me...using vile, racist (yes, the N-word being used by black folks is racists too), misogynistic language is a big no-no in my Twitter etiquette book.
I don't follow celebrities. What's the point? Our culture has turned most of them into egotistical replicas of who they were prior to achieving celebrity-hood. Why feed it any further. I did break down and follow @SarahPalinUSA. That was only to respond to her foolishness with tweets of my own. I'm sure she never reads the negative replies she receives but it sure makes a girl feel good to know that there's a possibility she might catch a glimpse of my wrath!
I was reading an article at Change.org about a recent Twitter beef (yes, there is such a thing) that's ongoing between 50 Cent and Perez Hilton. 50 is a rapper and Perez Hilton is a pretty famous blogger.
Apparently, 50 said some pretty homophobic and nasty things about Hilton, an openly gay individual, after Hilton called him a pretty nasty name. Oh, it's all so juvenile. But hey, it's the world we live in.
What's really shocking to me is not just 50's comments to Perez...but 50's entire Twitter stream. I've never seen such a disease festering display of the inner thoughts of a human being in my life. He rattles on nonstop with insult after insult after insult. You would think anyone with common sense (not 50 cents) would be fearful of posting such garbage. I mean this guy's career, money and rep have been at the expense of the folks who buy his music.
50 has over three (3) million followers on Twitter and his tweets are usually re-tweeted by 100+ users every time his fingers stroke the keyboard.
The misogynistic tweets seem to be his favorites:
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Ah, then there's his sensitive side regarding his children:
Put your eyes back in your head. This guy isn't the only one posting ignorance...140 characters at a time. It's epidemic. But who he is and what he's saying carries far more weight because of his name. Damn it! And as much as I love social media and instant methods of communication, this is also why I hate it.
Had it not been for Twitter...I never would have known how ignorant this guy really is. Nor would I have to deal with the devastating notion that over three million people some where in this world think this mess is worthy of following.
Is this our world, our society, our future?
The times of corruption are those when the apples fall from the tree: I mean the individuals, for they carry the seeds of the future and are the authors of the spiritual colonization and origin of new states and communities. Corruption is merely a nasty word for the autumn of a people. - Nietzsche
Is this our autumn?
