Mon Journal

Live on A Roller Coaster Through Social Media - What Words May Really Convey

[ “Kalo ga tau apa-apa ga usah komen” | “Kalo ga mau dikomentarin ga usah curhat di timeline” | “Kalo ga mau lihat curhatan gue ga usah follow donk” | “…” ]

[ “If you know nothing, don’t try to comment on this” | “If you don’t want to be commented, don’t rampage the timeline with your stories” | “If you don’t wanna see my stroies, don’t follow me” | “…” ]

That is a glimpse of what I think of things happened this morning on my twitter timeline. Well, not all of it happened actually - which most are my imagination, blame this overthinking brain - the part that really happened is only the first sentence. But somehow, I believe this is the thing that most likely to happened in general cases if something happened for any tweet like the first statement. Don’t you agree? Although this is only within my imagination, this is the most logical phases of statements to occur.

Blame the social media. Blame the words. Such symptom of this words arguing is happened in and only because of social media. How big it takes the part of our life until we mean each of words posted there. One thing that most people forget to realize if how misleading a words can be. We just forgot how the social media in most real time basis situation conveys only visual stuff - words and pictures, no moving graphics, no sounds, and NO INTONATION. Without those supportings, a words may convey a very far different meaning to others, and pufff…. what comes next is an argue of words like I posted in the beginning of this post.

What is next ? Sometimes people just forgot how this social media is definitely “social” just as its very own name. We share something that is read by others, and we sees something that is shared by others. Most of the times is an entertaining and informative things that we ought to know. The other time? It’s only a rampage of personal issue that we should not even care. Yet, we share it anyway. And yet, we respond to this matter as well. But it will only last to certain limits of course. We have to knoe the border of common sense for sharing and responding to these stuffs. Sometimes we have to realize when we share too much, and when we responded to things that should not be responded.

What comes to a final premature conclusion from this post that I posted through my office during work time? Not everybody is ready for this deliquencies of social media. They may have existed there, own lots of social media accounts, posses numbers of friends and followers, but they still don’t get the essence. Sometimes we just easily cross the border, a thin non rigid border that moves all the times in regards with people emotions. And tthe biggest un - readiness of all is : WE JUST TAKE IT TOO SERIOUSLY? Come on, what can you take so serious from a 140 characters. Yes they all say that a words may change someone’s life or even a world, but not with the twitterland. We barely even know who’s really talking there, the logic, the pure mind, the broken heart, or just your thumb playing on your blackberry keyboard.

So at last, let’s go rolling with the social media roller coaster. Play your emotion with it, but what happens in there stays there. Ciao!