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Originally Posted by GetItGrrl  twitter has opened up a whole new world for me. facebook is secondary and ddm is last in line of all my online activity. from twitter, i've gotten free albums, mix downloads, first looks at blog links, discount alerts for retail places i like to shop, and overall a sense of what people are doing who i admire. to get started, if you want to follow some cool organizations: bust magazine, the fader, hipsterrunoff, greg mishka, stereobait, discosalt, discooutcast, trash menagerie, etc. i even follow some makeup artists and nutritionists...and this one weird art guy who only tweets his expenditures and bank account balance. |
twitter only serves to highlight the rampant narcissism and self-centeredness that plagues our generation. it much like reality television, myspace, and other such abominations of our technological age acts as a prop to uphold the illusory values and rampant materialisms that our society has come to prize. attention is grasped at desperately like some rare gem, as if it were the sole faculty by which one's worth as a person is determined. this mentality seems to suggest we dont even fucking exist unless we have someone regonize us or read our updates every day. such behaviors indicate a serious lack of identity; the person instead of striving to find themselves rather aimlessly scrambles to create some kind of self image through creating blogs, pages, with my music, my brands, my life, my pictures. a feeble attempt to preserve a fragile ego under the crushing weight of the truth that people are afraid to face :
YOU ARE NOT FUCKING IMPORTANT.