What you project is what you are. What you say is what you are. What you post, type or tweet is what you are. With that understanding just who are you trying to be? During a casual but lengthy convo yesterday, a story was told to me. My friend's cousin got caught and called out for "fronting for twitter" and it sparked a question in my head. Who are you fronting for? I've seen this done by many but felt no reason to bring it up, but as the tendency increases I have to wonder about it. In the story just mentioned, the offending female had just spoken to my friend complaining of boredom and a lack of social activity on a Friday night. Nothing out of the ordinary w/ that, so she heads to a local club. She proceeds to bbm my friend complaining that said club is lame and she should of stayed home. Ok cool......no sooner did she communicate this message was then tweeting the following "Out with my girls doing it big. Poppin' bottles and having a great time."
Um.......What.....Really?
When called out for the blatant bullshit she joking replied "You know I gotta front for twitter." Well, no I dont know. Explain this to me. Who is laying in their bed on life support needed to know what your doing to survive? It's the ego manic within us all. It's just bigger for some then others. I view the Internets on a social level as communicating to others directly, speaking out loud/rambling or communicating indirectly to everyone hoping for a reaction of some sort.
Do you know how many arent aware that Twitter tell you the device and app you are tweeting from? Oh how many folk I've seen talk about their getting poippin' but have been "tweeting from web all day" . You aint gotta lie man. Im a nerd but these Internets breed some socially "interesting" people.
Ghostface said it well on the Purple Tape, "Yo dont front for me man. If you gonna play that role man play it."Please let your actions be the total representation of what you for you and not what you want others to think. It's an elementary lesson kids are told young but clearly it needs reinforcement for some adults too.
1 comments:
That's so immature, sad, and yet still hilarious. I have no idea why people feel the need to impress and falsely represent themselves online. No one cares, that's what I need people to understand.
Just type what you're thinking and truly feeling. Not what you think you should be feeling or thinking. The be yourself/self-esteem afternoons specials need to come back on the tele.
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