BLOG POST #2: Tweet Tweet Twitter

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Celebrities in particular  get a lot of abuse on the internet especially on Twitter because of its direct connection and some people are just so inherently cruel. Some people write harsh things to famous people without thinking about the fact that they are people as well.
It's a tough life to live in if you're a celebrity. We have the paparazzi following celebrities around or we have people from across the world posting mean things about these celebrities on social media like Twitter. However, celebrities are humans too and they deserve to have some respect from their fans. People are drawn to have attention from others which is why I think that they would do such a thing to post mean things about others on Twitter. However, this has been going on for quite some time - probably back to when Twitter was just a few months old and it was still in the process of being out there for the whole world to know. 

Being a fan of Jimmy Fallon and watching his show once in a while called "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," there is a bit that he does to entertain his viewers. "Mean Tweets" is what this is called. What is "Mean Tweets?" Mean Tweets is something created by Jimmy Fallon where different celebrities read tweets from people around the world that they don't know. However, these tweets that they read are most likely to me mean, hence why this bit is known as "Mean Tweets." As I began to take a look at these different videos of the "Mean Tweets" bit, I found it funny and entertaining. When going in to watching a few of these videos, I come to realization that these tweets were rude and unnecessary. I understand that these people are posting these tweets for fun and for entertainment, but they also need to realize that celebrities are humans as well and need to be respected the same way that the person posting these tweets want to be respected. 

The famous Jimmy Fallon's bit called "Mean Tweets" is not the only problem that is currently being faced on Twitter today. During the winter months of the year in the GTA, we usually deal with the bad weather - the cold, deep snow. This may be a good thing, but it is not a good thing for high school students across the GTA. While these bad conditions occur, many high school students, including myself, complain about having to go to school in these hectic weather conditions. We pray for school cancellations from our district school boards, but this ends up not happening. Because of this, students who attend the school boards tend to tweet and complain about not having school closures and also tweet unnecessary tweets to the school boards. We see that some high school students tweet vulgar words to the school boards. An example is "I can't believe the school board puts education first over our health." It's understandable that students would complain about this however they don't have to put this up on the internet for everyone to read. 

The question is, why would student do such a thing? Students clearly have a lot of time on their hands and don't have anything else to do other than to post mean things to others or about others. They could also be doing such a thing like this because they need to take their anger or other emotions out of their system and this is the only thing that they are able to do since it is easy access. What do they even get from doing this - from treating others badly through the internet? They get nothing but pleasure for themselves and at the end of this, they probably feel regret for doing this. To stop this we can report the people tweeting these mean tweets. In my opinion, there isn't anything we can really do about this. We can't confront the person tweeting about these situations. The reason why we can't really confront them is because they're already behind the screen. Clearly, if they're behind a screen and can't say these bad things in front of their face, they obviously can't be confronted in front of their face. From witnessing this in real life, I feel that this shouldn't even exist. The purpose of Twitter was not for bullying or for mean tweets. It was for people around the world to communicate with each other. I see this as a big concern for future generations because they learn from this which can cause bad attitudes for them. However, if someone attempts to stop this from happening, then it might just go away. But we never know what the future has for us.