Twitter, the Social Media Baby

   Twitter is the baby of social media, not in that it is the youngest (don't know that answer), but in that it is the cute one that everybody talks about and shows off the latest thing that it's done. It is also the one that is most likely to say #@*%! in front of company.

   Twitter seems to be the most trimmed down social expression that we currently have: it appears that it is just posts with or without photos, very abbreviated near to the point of needing a code breaker to understand what is being said.

   It's spontaneous and proven itself when crises have arisen as a fast way to get information across quickly to many people at once.

   It is also prone to snap judgments, misinformation and foot-in-mouth disease.

   Gilbert Gottfried lost his job with Aflac for making a joke about the Japanese tsunami. Donald Trump had to backpedal and delete a series of posts after the recent election. Kim Kardashian said something rude...again.

   This is one social media I will not touch. Besides a few clever people who make a point of writing funny or smart posts on a regular basis, very few have much to really say that is at all interesting. I've read plenty on the dullness of some celebrity posts and witlessness of other, unknown posters (yes, I, too, am moving to the Australia where the president is a christian. I often visit alternate Earths).

   If you think you are smart, interesting, funny, witty or clever, you probably aren't. 'Cause we read your Twitter feed and can tell you otherwise.

   If you think that people shouldn't miss a moment of your life, you are wrong. That you just bought a latte or dropped off your dry cleaning is far, far away from interesting.

   So, keep posting your feeds, squealing when HE tells you that he ate a cookie and scratching your head when someone says "undrstd M. M 4vr!" Not me, I own a front loading washer and the sock show is coming up soon.