Twittering from the Circus of the Dead

by Joe Hill

TYME2WASTE She’s always saying the Net is more real for me and my friends than the world. For us nothing really happens till someone blogs about it. 10:55 PM – 28 Feb from Tweetie

Currently reading a horror story told entirely in tweets. Is this what pomo means this day & age?

She says the internet is “life validation.” 10:55 PM – 28 Feb from Tweetie

Author shows contempt for social media. Oh god I hope this isn't one of those cautionary tales.

She has this attitude that people socially network ’cause they’re scared to die. It’s deep. 10:58 PM – 28 Feb from Tweetie

"…people socially network cos they're scared to die."

No one instant-messages about it. No one’s Facebook status ever says “dead.”

So for online people, death doesn’t happen. People go online to hide from death and wind up hiding from life. Words right from her lips.

But Twittering is better than blogging because my blog always made me feel like I should have interesting ideas to blog about. 8:14 AM – 1 Mar from Tweetie

A comment on using Twitter as a microblog

But on Twitter every post can only be 140 letters long. Which is enough room to cover every interesting thing to ever happen to me.

YouTube is full of clowns, message boards are full of fire-breathers, and blogs are for people who can’t live without a spotlight on them. 7:20 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie