Twitter: The Good, The Bad and The Funny?
Jimmy Fallon's "Mean Tweets" bit has always been entertaining to me. However, when you take a closer look at what is being said and think about it, the things that people post are ridiculously offensive and unnecessary. Celebrities deal with these things being said to them on a daily basis, and it is incredibly rude and unneeded. Following this, the video on Breakfast Television on the day of the snow storm showed many students posting mean tweets about schools/school boards because of their decision to keep school open. After students were caught for this, they continued to bully the reporter who was reporting the story. At this point, it is safe to say that it has been taken too far.I feel that people who post mean tweets on twitter do so because they are too afraid to be saying these things in person. Most of these people who are tweeting these things use it to express their anger, since it is easy to do. People post tweets behind a screen because they clearly cannot say these things in person. I don't understand why people would post such offensive tweets about people, since it does not benefit them in any way. Twitter was definitely not intended for people to bully each other, and people on twitter are misusing a great way of communicating with people and taking it too far.
I don't think there is anything we can really do about this. We cannot change the way people think, and even if Twitter was checked/governed, people would find other ways of bullying people behind a screen. If it becomes too much for someone to handle, they can block or report the account. However, we should definitely be paying attention and making sure that in the future, people know that this is a serious issue and it is unnecessary to be putting someone down behind a screen. I'm hoping that at some point, people will finally learn to stop treating others in such terrible ways.
3 comments: