Let’s pretend your name is Johnny for just a moment. You're in your pitch-dark room on a perfect 70-degree Friday night. The only light you can see is coming from underneath your blanket fort you have created without even noticing. “Johnny! Dinner’s ready!” You hear your mother, but you don’t really acknowledge her. She calls for you again and you groan loudly. She opens your door and you don’t notice because you’re in your fort. She annoyingly walks back down the stairs and eats alone. You’re too wrapped up in your social life on twitter to even have dinner with your own mother. It’s not even a real social life. Being social would require you to actually get up, go out, and socialize with real life human beings. Making pointless tweets and retweeting is the world’s new way of socializing. It’s depressing.
There are so many things about twitter that have taken over society today. For instance, the fact that some people don’t even know that the hash tag we use today in our twitter world is actually the pound sign or stands for the word “number” is ridiculous. Twitter has changed many words into other meanings that wouldn’t make sense to most people. The word “thot” is a word made through twitter but is now used by many people today as if it were just a regular word out of the dictionary. We, as people, used to bring new things to the World Wide Web. People would have great ideas and find ways to incorporate them into the Internet and social networks. Now it’s the other way around. The people behind their computer and phone screens are the new inventors of the world. If you make up a new catchy phrase that makes people laugh, you could get that trending. You could start a whole social war if you really tried to. That was never a thing…until now.
People are too revolved around the mystery Hollywood world and everyone in it. Celebrities on twitter tweet about their fabulous lives and get millions of retweets and favorites. They could post a picture of a spoon and get tons of feedback and attention from it. Nobody cares about the real world anymore. Nobody cares to walk outside or look out a window anymore to check the weather because instead, you could just check twitter. All the people you “follow” will be tweeting about it: “Oh god, I hate lightening.” Twitter is seriously taking over the world by being able to make you think that everything you need to know is on there. They make you think that everything on twitter is what you should know and what you should care about. It’s wrong but it can not and will probably never be stopped.
Kids of all ages have twitters already. It’s been around for a while but it got popular a few years ago. People are so nosy nowadays. On Facebook, you would post every day. Twitter has taken it to a whole new level by making it a normal thing to be able to tweet every hour. Most people tweet more than that! What is tweeting taking away from us? It’s taking away our attention from the real world. We cross the street and rely on the world around us to stop for us. We assume that everything around us stops for us. We finally get bored after five hours of scrolling through an irrelevant newsfeed and look up to see that the day is over, your homework is not done, and your mother is upset because she has eaten dinner alone every day for months. Wake up and stop being a slave to this fake world the stupid blue bird has made.
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