… 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. <\/p>\n
Enough negativity \u2014 the genuine kind, not my silly quasi-cynical kind \u2014 is creeping in that I am just about ready to hit the kill switch to mute them for good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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