In general, Twitter is the repository for all that is awful about human nature – users express all the hate, envy, hypocrisy, aggression and latent perversion that they would hesitate to do in real life. Generally speaking, it is a battleground of sorts and not a place to meet, greet and exchange pleasantries. So when #WeMetOnTwitter started to trend, many were like WTF?
This happily ever after stuff is not what one expects to find on Twitter. Angst, resentment, victimhood – that’s the Twitter we love to hate!
Some met and parted. Some met and remained (gasp!) together!
Well, neither can we!
Who meets on Twitter? OK, people do meet, but they don’t usually like each other.
Some commentators found the #WeMetOnTwitter hashtag funny – probably because they have a life outside Twitter?
…#WeMetOnTwitter? What did I just see!
…Don’t rub salt into my wounds!
They were like --- we can take it.
What about actual dating websites? If people ‘meet’ on Twitter they have no use of these.
Singles reading all the …#WeMetOnTwitter tweets were like – what are we doing wrong!
When they saw that people were finding love on an acrimonious platform such as Twitter, they were like I'm never finding anyone!
You're happy, but what about me, was the tenor of a lot of tweets.
Soon #ForeverAlone was trending and it all got rather self-pitying and maudlin.
There were those who were all alone, or worse, they were getting stood up and having all their hopes dashed!
The tweeple don’t believe there is that one perfect person for them out there. After all, they’ve seen too much of the dregs of humanity on Twitter to actually believe that #WeMetOnTwitter is a real, actual thing.
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