So this post is totally going to be me defending Twitter. It's possibly the famous of the social networking sites currently online and, being the modern techno whizz-kid that I am, I've been on twitter for a while.
I jumped aboard the twitter bandwagon before it was a popular one, also I was following Mr Fry before the millions, I feel like I'm allowed to be defensive about it, especially when twats like David Cameron attempt wordplay, and people slate it just because everyone is using it.
That's a surprising popular thing, "If everyone one is using it, then obviously I hate it/it must be shit". It's like in when charity bands were the big thing, schools banned them. Why? I am incapable of giving a none-sarcastic answer. There was no good reason to put a ban on them! The other thing is mobile phones, when they first became a big thing, no! When they first became a big thing with youth, that's when people starting attacking.
This post hasn't been provoked by anything negative, more because I've just checked my twitter feed, and have been informed of a number of important news stories (Just as an aside, Well bloody done! I wholly support every head teacher who is not forcing their students to sit the SAT'S exams.), and have laughed constantly, not just by the various celebrities on my news feed (Hello Mr. Fry! He's back in the country! Can't wait for the new book!), most of whom are comedians, so they're supposed to make me laugh. But the 'normal' people. The just every day people who say what they have to say. And sometimes it's heartbreaking, and sometimes it's heartwarming; and sometimes they can make you laugh more than any professional.
Twitter has proven itself as a force for good a number of times over, such as the Jan Moir article, the various charitable causes that are RT'd by people such as Stephen Fry or David Mitchell. And only the ignorant slate it. To imagine that twitter is some childish, unnecessary thing that only the ignorant and immature use, shows a degree of ignorance and immaturity far greater than mine. I'm not saying that it should be obligatory, that everyone has to use it and that if you don't like it you're a freak of nature, I'm just saying that if you've never used it, how can you ever fully appreciate or understand it?
