Recently, we have been receiving comments about our very first blog post, "Statuses", it's understandable that we offended a few people, after all, we were not targeting specific people, but groups of people who have similar habits on social networking sites.
I can not claim that neither Tanya or I have never posted an update of "how low" we feel today.
Actually, we often post pictures of the food that we cook on Facebook and more recently, Twitter. I have an entire album of pictures uploaded from my phone which has no relevance to other peoples lives apart from my own and my friends.
One recent comment that inspired this blog post was from a fellow blogger, Azza:
Dearest Azza, thank you for your comment, however, I believe you misunderstood. Facebook, twitter and BBM are not platforms for emotions, but rather broadcast messages to your friends, colleagues, and family. Telling them where you went that day and how it was, that's okay, however, telling them that on the way there you started your period and had to stop at a gas station to buy Always ultra pad because Kotex doesn't really do the trick... now that, thats unnecessary
Dearest girls,
ReplyDeleteFirstly, when you go to write your status on facebook what do you see? - Whats on your mind? Right? Yeah, so those people that you find annoying are writing whats on THEIR mind. The great thing however about these things; facebook/BBM/Twitter and the AMAZING thing about our eyes, mind and MOUSE on our computers is that we have the phenomenal ability to NOT read these comments or simply scroll down and ignore them.
Your lovely video expressed more than one emotion - so are blogs not a platform for emotion either?
and should everyone be immensely annoyed and frustrated by this lengthy rant? Because to be honest, I didn't really want to know about how you felt about peoples personal updates on social networks... see my point?