In a way, I’m tired of social media.
I mean, here at my blog, I can shout into the darkness and
more often than not nobody listens. And I’m good with that. I didn’t start this
blog with the intention of gathering an audience; I just like to babble.
And I do enjoy Facebook, because of the other outlet it
offers for babbling.
Twitter, eh, not so much. I’m on Round Two with Twitter, and
I just don’t have the time for it. It’s active social media, not the passive
stuff I’ve come to enjoy. If you’re not in on the joke within the first fifteen
seconds, you may as well not bother.
Then there’s this.
Now I know this kind of outrage existed long before Twitter.
I used to work for a newspaper that had a tape recorder connected to a phone
line where people could call in their anonymous gripes, and boy did they ever
call in their anonymous gripes. But social media – especially Twitter – for
some reason, makes this kind of outrage easy.
DISCLAIMER: I don’t recall much of Back to the Future II,
nor do I remember “Pepsi Perfect,” the product (or lack of it) causing the
outrage. The second film in the franchise was pretty bad, IMHO.
So you didn’t get the novelty product featured in some film
from aeons ago. Is it really worth the spittle to go on social media and
complain about it? After all, these cola drinks are really nothing more than
malted battery acid, per Berke Breathed (another throwback to the ‘80s, if you
don’t mind).
Twitter really is the go-to place for people with a sense of
entitlement, isn’t it? Even moreso than blogs that nobody reads.
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