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It’s Friday again, and the #FollowFriday recommendations are clogging up twitter like salmon heading upstream to spawn, except that none of the tweets will be caught and eaten by bears, which would be awesome to watch.
#FollowFriday started out as a way to share the love. Recommend good people to follow on twitter, and your followers will find some new interesting people to interact with. That’s the way it’s supposed to work, but some people have a hard time understanding that twitter, like life isn’t all about them.
Still, it’s hard not to follow someone so loving as @MishGoddess who so self-confidently whines herself into a few #FF recos of her own.
Sing along with us:
You made me follow you
I didn’t want to do it, I didn’t want to do it
You made me follow you
and all the time you knew it
I guess you always knew it.
You made me fearful sometimes, you made me sad
And there were times, Dear, you made me feel so bad
I think it was the 5″ stiletto sticking out of my ass.
Those threats of bodily harm just make us want you more.
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Gimme My Nickel Back
Honorary Fail Bird Handler @agent_x alerted us to @dajetz when he received the following tweet:
Apparently, @dajetz is an up-and-coming rap star. Or someone who hopes to be and up-and-coming rap star.
What we’ve gathered from watching Star Search, American Idol, and David Letterman is that to break into the music business you need to spend years paying your dues, honing your craft, and making connections. Or get lucky and someone discovers you.
We’re completely white, original saltine cracker kind of white, wonder bread, vanilla ice cream, white as rice, white. So we don’t know anything about the rap business at all. We clicked on each username to see their bios did a little research and it appears that @whitetee, @souljaboytellum, @djskee and @djmerkmusic are all in the music business. By the looks of his tweets, @dajetz is working on option B, hoping someone will discover him. To help the process along, he’s building his reputation using the tried and true tough-guy method employed by all the great rap stars: begging for attention like a spoiled school girl.
It’s All About Me
Follow Friday was started in January 16, 2009 by @micah, using the hashtag #followfriday suggested by @myklroventine (click to view their tweets) The purpose was and is, simple, as @micah said: I am starting Follow Fridays. Every Friday, suggest a person to follow, and everyone follow him/her.
Follow Friday has become a weekly standard as tweeps recommend others who provide value, post interesting tweets, or are just generally good people to know.
Unfortunately, the constant influx of newbies on twitter means there are plenty of people who don’t understand the concept. And, instead of asking what it’s about, they decide it’s the greatest tool for self-promotion. We were alerted to this phenomenon by Alert Honorary Fail Bird Handler @stinginthetail (who you should follow by the way, because she’s an all around fun person, has a great blog, and is the Queen of Darkness). She told us about @DEEZY1445 who is undoubtedly the world’s most amazing undiscovered rapper (check out his youtube video).
Being the inquisitive types we are, we promptly did a search and found all these other egomaniacs.
There are probably thousands of these tweeps, but we stopped looking once we realized our search results had no end.
The really silly and sad thing these tweeps don’t understand (besides what #followfriday is all about) is that for the most part, the people who see their follow request are already following them. Those few people who happen to stumble upon the request, and are not already following, will be turned off by the pathetic attempts to gain celebrity.
The majority of the people we found who are begging for followers have personal accounts, tweeting about the minutae of their everyday lives. Why they want to have thousands of people following them begs an explanation. Do the think a large follower count will give them power or the ability to influence others? Is their need for approval so high, are their real life relationships so lacking or nonexistant, that they need to have a bunch of strangers watching what they write so their lives will have meaning?
We’ll wrap this up with the most prolific follow friday fool of them all @g00dluckchuck
…whose current follower count is 82.
Yeah, Chuck. Good luck with that.
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Twitter Ate My Homework
If your child is failing class, it’s no longer the fault of evil teachers whose main goal is making their life hell, nor is it the family dog for his eating habits. It isn’t even your kid’s fault for skipping class, being stupid, lazy, or forgetting to do their homework.
You can stop blaming the lousy school system, politics, and even the class bully who stole their ipod or DS. We’re pleased to tell you there’s a new scapegoat: twitter.
Twitter is a fine excuse, that we’re concerned this kid is missing out:
Taking personal responsibility for her own actions? Unheard of. What if this thing catches on? It could start a new trend of kids doing their homework, studying, and passing their classes. Literacy will improve, and they’ll actually Learn Something.
Yeah, we live in a dream world. Please don’t wake us.
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