May 19, 2009

• Remember my “Five Things That Make You a Douche-tastic Douche” post? I apparently hurt someone’s brittle feelings when I wrote:

  “That’s right: if you use Twitter, you are a giant douche-tastic douche. You honestly believe people find your life so interesting that it warrants posting 140-characters worth of status updates every 10 minutes.”

  …because a day after I posted, a girl took to her Twitter site to write the following:

  What I meant was: annoyed @ non-Twitter users who thinks all on Twitter tweet mindless status updates every 10 mins about what they r doing
  2:05 PM Apr 30th from web

  Perfect example: http://absolutangel64.xanga... (see #2 on the list) way to be judgmental!
  2:08 PM Apr 30th from web

  (Sorry, but no link included. You can, however, easily find this girl’s page using Google.)

  It wasn’t until someone showed me this girl’s site that made me realize the truth behind her “tweets”: maybe I was being too judgmental. When I wrote that post, my intent was to list five signs of douche bagism—and in my haste, I was completely ignorant of the possibility that I had power over someone else’s emotions; that I was an unwitting puppet master of a female Pinnochio who had been shunned by the Blue Fairy and thus, still had strings to hold her down, to make her fret, and make her frown.

  I owe this girl an apology, as well as a “thank you” for showing me the error of my ways. After reading her Twitter page, I learned that not all Twitter users post 140-characters worth of status updates every 10 minutes:

  

  

  

  

  Instead, Twitter users post “mindless status updates” throughout the day—just not necessarily every 10 minutes.

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