This is for those keyboard warriors among us who are most articulate online; who find that they have some of their most glorious arguments discussions on Twitter. What if there were no Twitter? From time to time, people have contemplated their life without the microblogging website.
#InAWorldWithNoTwitter we would have to actually speak; as in verbalise – when talking to others. We would have to, god forbid, develop social skills!
Some had no problem with in-person, face to face interactions – except for body odour fragrances, that is.
It is an oft-overlooked impediment to social interaction – bad breath!
If we had to wean ourselves off social media, we would probably spend some more time out of doors. That would be scary good!
We would not know which idiotic thing the most powerful man in the world said or even thought next (because no sooner does Donald Trump think something than he tweets it). A world without Twitter would be one where “Trump doesn’t have an audience”, tweeted another.
In fact there is one view that Trump would not have won the presidential election had it not been for Twitter.
Twitter and the internet in general are full of grammar Nazis – those people who cringe at errors of syntax, spelling and grammar. They are the ones who like to correct others and who want to die of mortification when they mistakenly post something with mistakes.
Some think that Twitter educates. I agree. I believe that no reading is futile – even tweets.
Twitter is where the bitterest battles are fought today. It is here that the world’s seemingly thinnest-skinned people are; where someone or the other will willingly take offence at anything that is said.
Following someone on Twitter is fine. It is not the same as stalking someone in real life. At least, it isn’t supposed to be.
We all check out social media, send off word game moves and read the headlines while err… otherwise occupied. Don’t we?
Tell people what we ate, where we went, what we wore, what we did… if it wasn’t for social media.
We would communicate the old fashioned way!
At least one person thought that they would have no friends in a world with no Twitter.
This person seems to think that we would have been better #InAWorldWithNoTwitter. I don’t think so. Twitter creates its monsters of course, but it has been hugely democratising as well. Suddenly the unheard had voices. They could speak directly to the famous, the mighty and the powerful. If someone had a great new idea, everyone could hear it; it did not matter whose idea it was. Twitter helps us hold people accountable… if you can ignore the Twitter troll army that is.
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