Freedom Area High School's Student Newspaper

FHS Press

Freedom Area High School's Student Newspaper

FHS Press

Freedom Area High School's Student Newspaper

FHS Press

The Birds, They Tweet

We live in a techno-logical age. Al-most every teenager has a Smart-phone, laptop or tablet, and nearly every home has access to Wi-Fi or the Internet. With access to all of this lovely tech-nology, people spend a lot more time social net-working than actu-ally socializing.
There are ap-proximately 340 million tweets sent each day, with about half of them being derogatory. We’ve all been subjected to twitter fights, subtweet-ing and drama on the Internet.
Apparently this generation feels the need to air their dirty laundry for all the world to see.
If this was the 1950s, you would have decked the person, shook hands and moved on.
There is nothing I hate more than opening twitter and seeing two people going at it. There’s song lyr-ics, countless curse words and a whole gaggle of empty threats.
Fighting over a social network-ing platform makes you look more weak than anything.
It makes you look like you couldn’t form a complete sentence, so you went home three hours later where you could finally think of a witty remark.
What is the point of yelling at someone over the Internet? What’s the worst you can do? Caps lock the person to death..
For some reason our generation thinks that putting all of their mean thoughts on Twitter makes it okay. If you don’t have anything nice to tweet, then don’t tweet anything at all.
Twitter and Facebook are sup-posed to be for funny thoughts and staying in touch, not cat fights and subtweets. If you have a problem with someone, act like the adult that we all know you are and talk to them about it.
Fighting is never a good solu-tion to a problem, so build a bridge of tweets and get over it.