Anybody who spends any real time on Twitter knows, the scroll can lead to an incredibly awkward feeling. Since all the posts get thrown into the same feed, every person who you follow has the ability to get the same airtime. I've in followed a ton of people who just post too often but still I can't seem to find a happy medium
It's not unusual to move from one post from Nicholas Kristof about a 14 year old girl forced into the sex trade in SouthEast Asia to one on the amount of jobs added by the WSJ and then all of a sudden get slammed by the imbecilic musings of The Iron Sheik. The beauty of twitter is also its downfall, serious journalism gets in the way of Jim Norton's rant on United Airways or Sarah Silverman's complaints about the size of maxi-pads.
You move from a story about a victim in Aurora which pulls at your heart-strings and all of a sudden there is Bob Raissman complaining about Mike Francesca, you go from the death toll in Syria to five TED talk links posted by an Irishman (happy birthday by the way) all sandwiched between fifty posts analyzing every training camp throw Tim Tebow makes -including way too many of him throwing away his shirt. You are interested in all of it but somehow the Aurora tragedy gets minimized because Eric Decker caught a five yard out.
It's such a ridiculous way to get informed because the topics -and your mood- changes every five seconds. It has become very obvious to me that Twitter should enable us to separate the posts into folders so you can at least decide before hand what you may want to be exposed to right at this moment. There are times I need my Fantasy football fix, there are times I want a laugh, there are times I am dying for insightful political commentary and there are times I want to see what is going on in Syria but those usually don't all occur at the same exact time
I want to read them all but getting them thrown together like BiBimBap is a bit of sensory overload
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1 comment:
David but randomness is what makes things so f-ing funny. This is like my email excerpts. One excerpt is about tracy's job interview, the next is nikol's cancer story, the next is richard discussing escorts. Of course I make this about me cuz I am self absorbed. I am overdue for a self absorbed mindless soliloquy btw.
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