I am have a conundrum (used only to impress you). I recently discovered I am 2 people...Yes I said 2 people. When I say 2 people, I don't mean in a "Julia" kinda way (googled for names other than Sybil, she has gone through enough)...What I am saying is that, I have a dark side, and Twitter is where I let it out to run free...
I am on Facebook....a perfectly respectable page, with pictures of my kids etc. I have just over 100 friends, had more at one time, but conducted a purge which would have made Stalin proud. My page doesn't stand out among other pages....a house in the suburbs with a white picket fence if you will....Now I should tell you that I have set strict policies for myself in regards to how business on my page will be conducted, for example: 1) I will not post mundane information about my day, or life on it. My goal is for you leave my page knowing nothing more about me then when you first came through my door. 2) I will not hap-hazardly allow unknown people onto my page....The admittance of minors will be on a case by case basis. 4) If friends post too many asinine comments, they will be denied further access to my page. Well you get the idea.....point being my page is run like a Jewish country club...pretty strict. I was going through my Facebook life, pretty damn content thank you very much.....well that was until......
Before I go on, it must be said that at one time I thought Twitter as rediculous....a complete waste of time. I mean come on, a place where you let others know what you're doing at any given random moment???? Pretty damn stupid if you ask me.....
It needs to be said that I have a female clone....If she stopped shaving her legs, she'd be me, and if I stopped being embarressed everytime I accidently went down the tampon section at Kroger, I'd be her. What I'm saying is that I trust her opinion on most matters. One day, she says "Doug, you need to get on Twitter, you'd be good at it.." She was savvy enough to know that by saying I'd be good at anything meant I'd be signed up within the hour......hence I was signed up that very afternoon.
Since that day...since that fateful afternoon, a new, dark....unknown door has opened up within me. Basically Twitter is Facebook without all the crap...just status updates, which are my bread and butter. I am unknown on Twitter...no family...no stick up their ass friends....no kids.....Twitter is a cyber playground with free admission. If Twitter sold beer, I'd never leave. I am using words on there that I never imagined in my wildest dreams ever being able to use.....I've written things on there that would make my mom turn over in her grave, and she's not dead yet!!!
Well I still have my respectable Facebook page, where friends send me requests to become their neighbor on Farmville...or need help "whacking" a mafia kingpin...but I now have a "man-cave", a place where I can let the darkside of me out...to roam...to feed...and I like it.
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