by Gilley Aguilar

Is it just me or did Twitter come just a little late in life?  Have you ever thought about what it would’ve been like if Twitter had been around in the sixties?  Of course that would’ve meant that computers and the internet would’ve had to been around first.  You can follow almost any of your favorite celebrities to find out what they are doing.  Most of the time it’s pretty boring stuff.  Yesterday Matthew Perry was making a sandwich around noon.  It was very nice to know that he was doing that.

What if someone like The Beatles had Twitter?  The Beatles of course, was one of the biggest bands in history and sold millions of records.  Would it have been the same if we were able to know everything that was going on behind closed doors?  Would McCartney have said something like,

“McCartney So just sitting around with my mates, @Lennon, @RStarr and @Harrison writing a song about a yellow submarine.  I wanted to go with a black submarine but was out voted”

12 minutes ago from Tweetdeck

Or maybe something like,

“Harrison @Lennon is bringing over his new girlfriend @Ono.  I think I am really going to like her.  She will really help out the band.”

1 hour ago from Twitterfon

I think not knowing what really went on is something that is what makes them great.  If we knew what bands were doing in the sixties behind closed doors more then what we did, then I think the parents might not have been so keen on their music being in the house.

Or what if they had facebook accounts?  Would we be logging on only to see another stupid quiz that John Lennon filled out to tell us what kind of rock he is?  Or what “sex position” he would be?

Maybe it is for the best that Twitter was developed a little bit later for this generation.

**Gilley Aguilar is also from Oklahoma.  Please vote for Gilley by leaving a comment below.  You can visit his website thegilleyaguilarproject.wordpress.com.

A recent post by The Bloggess caught my attention: “25 things about twitter that are pissing me off.”

I can’t say that I agree with every item on her list but I can definitely relate to a few.

People who are making me her us mad:

“People who have their twitter account marked private because they don’t want people to read it. YOU ARE ON THE INTERNET.  Also, what you’re drinking at Starbucks is not national security.  It makes me want to create a page for my cat and make it private because it’s that stupid.”

Now, there are people who use Twitter to communicate with a select group of people or do not want the world to know that they hate their boss / the company they work for / the product they sell / their wife etc. While it’s good not to broadcast these things I wonder if the locked account people know that people who are allowed to follow them can and do retweet their stuff and broadcast it to the world for them. (Oops. You didn’t think of that, did you.)

“People who I’m really good friends with on twitter but they never post anything to let me know if they are a girl or a boy and their picture is of a dolphin or a rainbow and I want to talk about them to my husband and I’m all “Oh, one of my best friends on twitter is hilarious and you would love him or her” and then Victor’s all “You don’t know the sex of one of your best friends?” and I’m all ” Well…their picture is a dolphin” and he just shakes his head.”

Seriously. Please. Are you a human or are you a picture of a goat.

“People who aren’t on twitter and think they’re better than me, because I was you a year ago and guess what?  I had a lot more spare time then.  But now I have 11,000 friends.  And only half of them are robots.  The other half are dolphins.”

And you know exactly who these people are because they refer to the act of using twitter as “twittering.”

“People who ask questions that no one cares the answer to.  Like, bad question:  “Hey everybody!  What’s your favorite color?”  Good question: “How many lemurs could you fight off if the lemurs were really mad and you were wearing a suit made out of meat?”

Other bad questions: “does anybody want to buy my ebook?” and “how do you work this twitter thing?”

“People who answer that question “I <3 lemurs!!!  They R QT’s!!!”  Just stop it.  You don’t get to use twitter anymore.”

Twitter is not AOL and this is not 1995.

“Robots.”

Obviously.

“People who ask me to follow them over and over except I’m already following them but I can’t DM them that because they aren’t following me.”

This one’s on my Top 10 Most Annoying Things in Life list.

“Practically everyone who has an auto-response set up to welcome followers.  I don’t need you to tell me I’m following you.  I just followed you.  Also, you only have 16 followers.  Just how busy are you?

Exactly. Also, I have yet to see an auto-response that made me think “Well isn’t that a good idea!”

“People under age 16 on twitter. No. Just look what you did to Myspace.”

Two words. PARENTAL CONTROLS.

**Stephanie comes to us from Atlanta, GA.  To vote for Stephanie’s post, please leave a comment below.  Don’t forget to visit her website, www.radiantveracity.com.

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