Twitter, Blog Commenting & Doc Weasel: Thy Name Is Parody

August 18, 2009 / 12:05 pm • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

I got this comment from my post on Twitter from famed blogger Doc Weasel [language and link warning: he likes using bad words and images might not be safe for work]:

ugh. twitter is for twits, but only because of the fortuitous syllable synchronicity. In reality, it’s for self-absorbed douchebags. There have always been people who think they need to say every stupid thing that comes into their heads: now we have a means to broadcast it immediately to a group of other smug douchebags.

No one is that witty. No one has that many intelligent, important things to say. And I refuse to believe anyone is bettered by reading any of this useless tripe.

Thankfully, it’s a trope so stupid and useless it’s become risible and passe even as it’s booming. I give it another half a year before the sheer idiocy of “tweeting” your own deep thoughts incessantly is reduced to that circle of people who are oblivious to their own pathetic boobery and the well-deserved ridicule of the rest of us.

Blogging and commenting (not excluding this one) brought writing to it’s least well-thought out, unimportant and retarded level. Well, tweeting has managed to reduce writing to the cyber-equivalent of instantaneously disseminating your brain farts far and wee.

Anyone who sends out twitters is a pathetic douche. Anyone who willingly subjects themselves to twitters is a f*cking idiot.

Who is the bigger douche? The writer of the “retarded” post or the douche who comments on the douche-baggy post? One would think a non-douche bag would have more valuable time than to waste it on an unimportant and retarded blog post.

As to the substance, I recommend watching this video:

Like it or not, blogs and social media are here to stay–well, as long as there is electricity, anyway. And last I checked, there are douche bags in real life too, spewing all sorts of nonsense. They’re called co-workers, guys at the bar, and family members. At least on social media, you can filter and block them.

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  • http://docweasel.wordpress.com docweasel

    sure, there are always assholes, but no need to facilitate them. And I never said you were a douche for the post, just for twittering. And I guess by extension, encouraging others to do so.

    Also, I mentioned in my comment that I was not excepting my own comment from the triviality of it all. And commenting on your post is not useless as the twittering I seek to combat. You seek to spread it. I hope to nip that sort of foolishness in the bud. You confuse the issue. You can lash out at the stupid: that doesn’t make your cause less worthy. I’m fighting the darkness and evil and justly hated idiocy. Therefore, I can only be a friend to the good and my posts can only be an absolute good thing in a world of bad crazy.

    lastly, I’m a she, not a he (although it’s a co-blog with several members all blogging under the nom “dw”), and any nsfw you may encounter on our blog is strictly for the sake of art, as Mike’s David might be nsfw, so it is art and therefore valid. And we are such.

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  • http://twitter.com/crisatunity crisatunity

    The head-in-sand quality of critiquing Twitter from a WordPress blog, a.k.a. as Yesterday’s Twitter henceforth, is staggering.

  • http://docweasel.wordpress.com docweasel

    Sure, blogging is stupid: commenting on a blog stupider, twitter stupidest. You’ve got to draw line somewhere or the stupid will overwhelm us all. My line is at twitter. As should be yours, if you had any apprehension.