The Mob (No Not That One)
More than a year ago I wrote about how the anonymity of the Internet often drags open online discourse into the gutter. Well sadly not much has changed!
I've been a user of Twitter for quite some time. You can do a lot in 140 characters (sometimes!). But here are 8 characters I would love to see disappear from the Twitter lexicon:
SUCKS ASS
I don't really understand why people want to express their innermost feelings publicly, but so be it. They also want to comment on an event, a product or service or a celebrity, politician, friend or enemy on Twitter. But why must they use these choice 8 characters to do it?
SUCKS ASS
Is our educational system so dysfunctional that those who Twitter cannot come up with a better level of commentary? Have social norms been so degraded that
SUCKS ASS
is now an acceptable way to communicate?
Do a search on twitter for
SUCKS ASS
Just in the last hour this descriptive has been used many times. Apparently ESPN's Jeff Van Gundy sucks ass. Many think school sucks ass...That is an age old complaint of students! Breakfast, work, sunburns and cramps all suck ass. A rapper named Kobe sucks ass compared to Eminem according to one person. Another twitterer thinks the baseball player Mariano Rivera sucks ass.
I'm so tired of hearing those two words from the Internet Mob.
Recommended alternatives to sucks ass are welcome!
I've been a user of Twitter for quite some time. You can do a lot in 140 characters (sometimes!). But here are 8 characters I would love to see disappear from the Twitter lexicon:
SUCKS ASS
I don't really understand why people want to express their innermost feelings publicly, but so be it. They also want to comment on an event, a product or service or a celebrity, politician, friend or enemy on Twitter. But why must they use these choice 8 characters to do it?
SUCKS ASS
Is our educational system so dysfunctional that those who Twitter cannot come up with a better level of commentary? Have social norms been so degraded that
SUCKS ASS
is now an acceptable way to communicate?
Do a search on twitter for
SUCKS ASS
Just in the last hour this descriptive has been used many times. Apparently ESPN's Jeff Van Gundy sucks ass. Many think school sucks ass...That is an age old complaint of students! Breakfast, work, sunburns and cramps all suck ass. A rapper named Kobe sucks ass compared to Eminem according to one person. Another twitterer thinks the baseball player Mariano Rivera sucks ass.
I'm so tired of hearing those two words from the Internet Mob.
Recommended alternatives to sucks ass are welcome!
Posted by Warren Adelman at 5/17/2009 12:52 PM 
Categories: Human behavior
Tags: twitter technology social behavior
Categories: Human behavior
Tags: twitter technology social behavior
Hmmmm, maybe the focus should be on building up the better instead of tearing down the lesser. "Jazz is way better than ska" sounds much better than "ska sucks ass." Of course, if you are comparing different insects, a mosquito probably sucks ass more than another.
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I was thinking something as simple as "I don't like..."
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Continuing on the theme of economy plus clarity (without the scatological overtones), may I suggest a word from my youth: "bites." Biting is unpleasant any way you look at it and you save four precious characters.
Similarly, how about "rocks" for the reason Todd suggests--though "Jazz rocks" might offend purists.
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Both suggestions work better for me Bill. Sadly a quick look at Twitter right now suggests Sucks Ass is still going strong.
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The twitter for this post might be something like
Sucks ass, sucks ass
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I like that Drew. Good to hear from you and thanks for the post.
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i alwaze tended to be partial to "sucks shit" myself, but that often doesn't work in public; there's also the old favourite: "sux the big one," but that's a bit lengthy
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