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I am inching closer and closer to hitting the delete/deactivate button

by theogeo

… on my Twitter account. Because I will post silly things that are just attempts to be funny, and I will come back later and see a string of condescending replies from people who missed the humor (or “humor,” as your preferences may deem it) in their rush to jump at the opportunity to be pedantic, preachy assholes. This doesn’t just happen on Twitter; I notice it more and more in Google Reader threads too. (Facebook’s penchant for this mess goes without saying.) Everyone’s got to chime in and out-asshole everyone else. Normally, I would not let this get to me, as I tend to associate solely with assholes (if you consider yourself my friend, you are probably an asshole), so I am immune to that behavior to a degree. But lately it just seems like pile-on after pile-on and there is no place I can go with my silly me-isms where I won’t immediately be trolled by someone who takes his/her need to be a Fucking Jerk very seriously. I’ve tried blocking these people, I’ve tried ignoring these people, I’ve tried poking sharp objects through the straw flesh of voodoo doll representations of these people, but THEY ARE EVERYWHERE and they will not stop.

Enough negativity — the genuine kind, not my silly quasi-cynical kind — is creeping in that I am just about ready to hit the kill switch to mute them for good.

13 thoughts on “I am inching closer and closer to hitting the delete/deactivate button”

  1. The best way to combat this syndrome is to occasionally fuck with them, by posting things like “I really can’t stand that Celine Dion song where she’s singing about how her hips don’t lie.”

  2. Damn it, but I love your twitter feed! What do assholes have to ruin everything for all of us? Your twitter experience. The mall. Congress. All ruined by assholes.

  3. Do what I did: Shut it down and create a new account with a fictitious name that’s only known to people you tell about it. Also I only follow people I know in real life. Well, and also Dee Snider.

  4. Yep, I 2nd the idea. Lock this one down to stop the trolls or get a separate personal one, lock it down and associate only with the assholes that you know. Mine has always been locked to keep it off the search engine grid.

  7. At the risk of piling on (“I wouldn’t want to be accused … of taking part in a rumble” — Sally Brown, ca. 1966), I shall add:

    WHAT THEY ALL HAVE SAID, QUITE MOST ELOQUENTLY, EVEN.

    Lock tha motha down, yo, but please don’t quit because of ninnies. If people can’t appreciate your humor, they don’t have to read it. They can take a sharp stick and investigate the various permutations of forcibly effing themselves instead. (I add the “forcibly” just in case some of them don’t understand just how seriously I want them to eff themselves. Bad political humor! Yay me! Ahem. Now you see why I get so many unfollows, too.)

    But yes. Go private if you have to, but please do not flee. Yet.

  8. > I will come back later and see a string of condescending replies from people who missed the humor

    I hope you didn’t think that my “Hmm.” reply the other day was condescending; it wasn’t meant to be.

  9. Your feed is one of the highlights of all TWITTER, IMO. If you feel you must go private, please make it available to those of us who appreciate your tweets. Ok, that sounded weird, but you get my point.

  10. I agree with Steve and Aunt B, your Twitter is the best out there. That and your blog brighten my day. Some people do just have to out-asshole others. It must make them feel better about their sad, little selves.

  13. I agree about the making it private part.

    Keep in mind that nobody criticizes someone they think is beneath them.

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