Social Media

What it is??? What's up??? Sorry it's been a while.  I've been so busy with school that I've totally neglected my blog... But today I wanted to talk about social media!  I'm pretty heavily involved in social media and having just written an English paper about social media, I thought it would be good for me to talk about it, but specifically, my experiences on social media.

I have a fairly small following on Twitter (mostly because I don't tweet relevant things lol) and through my years on the platform, I've come across other amazing, and not so amazing users.  I've seen communities grow and people come together through common interests.  I've seen people come together to tear another individual or group down becauseTwitter is a place where you can say whatever you feel within a 140 character limit.

I've watched from the sidelines as users find faults in others and judge without knowing a single thing about that person.  More specifically, I see this happening in fandoms.  Don't get my wrong, I am part of two HUGE fandoms, and if you've read older posts, you'd know which ones, and I love both my fandoms with all my heart, but there are always those few who are just heartless.  Like today, a few of us on Twitter were giving away presale codes for concert tickets for an upcoming tour.  I was giving one away, but my only requirement was that the person I give it to has to not seen the band before.  Still, however, I received tweets and direct messages from girls who have seen the band and even MET the band.  It made it more difficult for me to filter through the people who entered my little giveaway, but I still stuck with it.  I eventually chose one grateful winner who had not seen the band.

After all was said and done, I looked through Twitter to find that other users who were giving codes away were getting hate because they did not choose certain people to win.  Everyone had their own methods to choosing winners - some used a randomizer, others chose the first person who tweeted them, or like I did, filtered through each and every entry, making sure each person met my requirements.  Fortunately, I did not receive any hate for not choosing certain people, because I kept my giveaway pretty private, but other bigger accounts got hate.  It kills me to see those things happening because we don't HAVE to give these codes away.  We may not have needed them, so we chose to be NICE and give them away.  Everyone had an equal opportunity to receive the code themselves, but some of us were nice enough to give our codes away to the people who didn't sign up to get them.  We did a NICE THING.

Anyways... this was just a dumb little rant.  I just want people to learn how to appreciate the small gestures.  It sucks when you do something nice for someone and you get yelled at when you don't do something nice for everyone.  I love everyone, but I just want people to learn how to appreciate.

As always, thanks for reading!

Love, Cat <3