Non Social Media.

I have taken some flack and criticism for changing my Twitter profile. For choosing to unfollow a number of people and for making personal choices.

Why am I writing about this? Well some people need to get a life.

Have I offended you? Tough shit!

May I remind the detractors the web/ social media is an open platform.

Yes I get annoyed by countless conversations that happen between people/couples openly on Twitter. That’s they’re choice to use the medium for that but that’s not why I use it. I therefore reserve my personal right to follow whomever I choose and exclude myself from such personal conversations (do these people now know how to text or pick up a phone).

There’s a high concentration of people who sit online waiting to be praised, waiting for people to coo at their latest random statement, purchase, “great life event” – in a culture obsessed with celebrity is this absolutely necessary to have such non celebs taking up our time? Why do some feel compelled to be sucked in by such people? They’re lives are hardly glamorous… They’re probably tweeting from a rat infested bedsit.

Again if people want to partake fine. But please don’t expect me to or get offended when I choose not to.

It may be a gay thing. It may be that the circle of participants are all of the same mould, all doing the same thing and following the same pattern. Well if I don’t want to know or “fit in” then I have the right to choose not to listen.

I thought I’d made some new interesting friends but I was wrong. Friends engage in two way conversations. Friends don’t exclude. Friends make equal effort to communicate, support and participate.

I’d like to make it known that not everyone is like this an I have made some very interesting people and people who have become good friends but for the most part there is disappointment.

I think this is reflective of society as a whole though. People seem more compelled to show off rather than listen and converse. When did the world become so single focussed?

If you follow me on my new account, thank you. Thank you for being engaging, entertaining, news worthy and honest. If you’d like to follow me – request a follow – “I” don’t bite!

By the way I am not wound up by this. On the contrary it hasn’t caused me to lose sleep, I simply felt my feelings had to be “heard”.