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07.27
Are we phweeting social media?
We all have vices for amusement, right?
Some of us regale for yesteryear at a certain "obsessive" college. Others of us could spend hours jamming to the best of 80s hair bands to make time zoom by... in a foggy haze, no less.
Identity notwithstanding, we all need something to help with the daily grind. These days of being plugged into the matrix every hour, reality is no longer funny enough. The fake stuff has us all in stitches it seems.
But is it funny or going to far?
Spencer Ackerman is someone I have never met so it's not like I am defending my kids' God parent, but this writer for Wired has a phony tweeter - a 'Phweeter'. And the surreptitious social media hack is known for giving Ackerman quite the salty mouth, according to Media Bistro.
Frackerman [as he is called] is prone to locker room, Bart Simpsonesque humor (some of it really much too sick to print) and sends otherwise obnoxious notes to ex-Journolisters such as WaPo's Ezra Klein, Mother Jones D.C. Bureau Chief David Corn and MSNBC contributor Dave Weigel.
Now, I am the first to admit some of these phweeters are hilarious. Most recently, the brilliant BPGlobalPR that pokes fun at the deluge of misery BP Oil has caused the American ecosystem.
Other ones great for a case of the giggles are:
- Chuck Norris hosting his machismo greatness
- Abe Vigoda who always surprises himself that he is still alive
- CNN Breaking is not the Onion, but still nice fake headlines
- And then there's the Lord of all Phweeters, Darth Vader
However, I'm sure real people like Nick Nolte and Roger Clemens don't really appreciate the fun and yuks at their expense plastered all over Twitter 5 - 10 times a day. Sure, their issues are fodder for public consumption but when does casual jabs at fraility become just heinous slander?
I'm not some stalwart of peace and love. I'm one of the snarkiest cats I know, but just picking on some editor with eff bomb laced tirades may not be what Biz had in mind when he created this haven for hoax tweets.
Just a thought. Now if I could only put all that in 140 characters or less. Sigh.
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