We have all been told Blogs are good, despite being a cringe worthy word its a medium which allows you to broadcast your work and thoughts. I've recently read a blog wrote by a girl who studies photography (but only seems to take pictures of her wonky face) who shared useless facts about herself like how she had months off school because she was bullied and how she used to cry at other peoples birthdays because she was jealous ...and she wondered why she got bullied 'its because your a dick!'.
I'm not promoting bullying at all but social media has opened up a new dimension of harassment, like those celebrities who say 'whatever haters! you just want to hate 'cos thats all haters wanna do!' like a crossbred version of a Morrissey and Fred Durst. Those kind of people like to think people hate them but in reality people just despise them because they are dicks.
In the last few days Twitter has been overdosing on a Lady Gaga quote "bullying is for losers" which is funny because as I typed that a Blue Peter presenter was bullying a Muslim girl on TV by calling her a "Loser" whilst demanding for her purse (not the first Blue Peter presenter to force themselves into degraded girls purses *ahem* John Leslie). Without going too far into the psychological theories behind bullying I feel Lady Gaga is bullying bullies, surely bullies need to be loved like self-involved attention seeking pop stars? Anyone who has once followed Steve Brookstein on Twitter would know that past it centres of attentions are bitter and vile people, no one is paying him attention so he decides to pick on 16 year-old lads with daft hair (and fans of).
I have no problem with insulting stage school kids and questioning the pop cultural taste of teens with good humour but when it comes to resentment and brutality by a middleaged man something slightly depressing and unsettling occurs. In reality the internet is full of anonymous pussies or as people like to call them these days 'trolls'. Before Twitter et al people used to go on message boards just to insult each other and celebrities but no one ever seemed to act with tact or ethics. The large majority of these trollers are either dejected grown men and frustrated teens comparing everything to Hitlers between sessions of pornography binges.
The days of internet Anon has gone, I can hunt down anyone online and find anything out about them but at the time I will leave that for another time as I understand this blog entry is quite poor on several levels but can't be bothered to delete it. Next time I will share some decent stories involving work, getting sacked, and other tactless social networking occurrences.
Here's the first Blue Peter from Salford involving the bullying presenter scenes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/cbbc/episode/b015f3rq/Blue_Peter_26_09_2011/
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