Being a Complete Twit

Well my friends, karma has officially come back to slap me in the face, kick me in the mouth, and all other heartfelt things that toy with my emotions. So, I totally blogged Saturday about all the narcissistic people on YouTube and Twitter who never follow anyone back due to all their selfish needs. Well I have a Twitter and I'm proud to be following 2,000 people with some odd 688 give or take awesome amazing rad hip lovely people following me in return! I know what you're think because obviously it's the same thing Twitter thought! I thought I was just being a nice sociable person, giving back and following all those who follow me. But apparently 2,000 is too much, and I have become a quote: "aggressive follower" in Twitter's book!?!!?! O_o Rawr? I don't think I'm that scary really! I mean I'm only 5'4"!! I get stomped on by trolls. Okay, but seriously I'm not allowed to follow anyone else until that amount of people start following me! So I took the time to go through all 2,000 of my follows and stop following everyone who wasn't up to par. The people who are trying to sell me stuff, phone calls all hours of the day is making up for you guys. Or people who made a twitter and never got around to using it...I'm just freeing up some space and losing some dead weight here. I'm sorry for those of you who got cut, but I like to follow people back who follow me and waiting until hundreds of twitters get the memo would take forever. I got down to roughly 1,010 and now I'm back up about 50 away from my limit, being careful of everyone I follow. I love twitter and at least I enjoy being social. I kind of get where Twitter is coming from when they say I couldn't possibly keep up with everyone. But I manage and always respond to everyone who talks to me. It's just the luck of the draw, seeing who you might come across any given day. It's also exciting to hear from different twitters and different perspectives every day. From 15 to 51 I try following people from all walks of life. People trying to start a band and become the next big thing or people who just want to keep in touch with their friends and make a few more at the same time. I follow people who have 8 friends to 8,000. Twitter to me isn't about getting my fifteen minutes, it's about having some fun on a rainy afternoon. About discovering some new music and talking movies. About trending topics and spreading the love. I'm sorry twitter is trying to restrict my fun, but that's what it sees fit. I don't consider my account a threat and apparently neither do my now 765 follows. I'm not being selfish here...I'm not trying to get all these people for myself. I'm just curious as to who is eating Chef Boyardee at 6:57p.m. and how many guys confess to loving Celine. And if curiosity is out to get me, well then this kitten is bringing out the claws!

Generation Me...Isn't Worth The Fee

I was beginning to miss the way my blog started out, with me analyzing/giving my opinion on a magazine article. So I was thrilled when I ran across a topic I was eager to discuss in the April 20th issue of Newsweek. Here goes...
The article is titled Generation Me and it speaks of the so called narcissism epidemic that is sweeping the younger generation. And I agree that people are being narcissistic, and it is becoming quite the problem. A life of self-indulgence from a self-absorbed snobby little brat with a disproportionate sense of self-worth hardly sounds flattering, yet these days it's what everyone seems to strive for. The article states that it has been proven that 10% of 20-somethings already experience symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder. The only surprising part of this statement, I thought the number would actually be higher! I mean I think to some extent we are all guilty. And confidence is something a person needs to have, as long as it doesn't exceed it's limits. But times have changed, and I'm pretty old fashioned. The handiest cure for narcissism used to be life, but now it seems as though we actually encourage such actions every day!
The article then goes on to mention something that really struck a chord, and one I've been meaning to mention for some time now. It said, "We live in a world where everyone can be a star-if only on YouTube." Which puts me in mind of a quote I once heard, "Live everyday as though it will be shown on YouTube." This quote made me smile, but perhaps this isn't the way to go about it. This is the problem I have with it: I LOVE YouTube and Dailybooth...and Twitter. These are all sites I have, although I don't make videos on YouTube. I have a (very new) account and I love watching videos or vlogs or whatever they are called and I have subscribed to several people who can always manage to put a smile on my face (and usually a laugh from my mouth as well =]). And when I'm looking for new music or the latest video from my favorite artist, it's the first site I hit up, cause I know I'll be able to find what I'm looking for within a matter of seconds. This is the reason the site was made no doubt. What I hate are the "overnight celebrates" who go from a few hits to hundreds or even thousands of subscribers and suddenly are too good (or too busy, whatever) to interact with their dedicated fans. If someone has taken the time out of their day to watch your videos and comment, rate, or even subscribe to your channel , you should also go out of your way for a few minutes to return the favor. If you can spend hours making and editing the videos, you should also have plenty of time to give back to your supporters. You may say thanks to all those people and think that you are actually doing them a service because they get to watch and for free. But the superiority complex isn't helping out anyone. I know personally that when I comment on something and never hear anything in return it makes me feel unwanted and that I might as well just stop rating and watching and commenting because obviously no one cares and it doesn't make a difference. The same goes for all other sites, I will use twitter and Dailybooth for examples. I love these sites, and I spend far too much time on both. I have come to notice those people who have oodles of follows, but are only following friends and family or worse no one at all. The main or even sole purpose of these web sites are to meet new people and make Internet friends. This can never happen, however, if you refuse to let it! What makes you so special? "Last I checked, most of our lives don't require all that attitude."
I guess my ranting is over for now. I'm not looking to make anyone mad...I just want to hopefully make people think before they act, and leave you with something to ponder whilst speaking my mind.

Later,
Brittany <3

The Long and Winding Road

Helter-Skelter Hum Drum Ranting

I'm feeling quite...nostalgic is the first word that comes to mind. Yet yearning for the familiar doesn't seem quite right. Although I can't say I yearn for the unknown and unusual either, so that, for now, will have to do. I feel like, well absolutely nothing to tell the truth, but I was going to go for reading. I think the next book I pick up is going to be Death of a Salesman or possibly A Million Little Pieces unless someone of high importance persuades me otherwise. I don't read just anything, although I usually enjoy everything I read. I describe my taste in books as involving the classics. I can't seem to settle down these days, and this includes my mind as well. I'm in the middle of about five (really six) art projects at the moment. Coming close to finishing about two. I now more than ever before have a longing to belong to a different decade. And although I think the Sixties will always be my favorite, I've taken quite the liking just recently to both the Seventies and the Twenties. I know it's quite the jump...flapper or hippie, the hardest question anyone could ever be faced with! I also know that I'm being completely random and using the word quite quite frequently right about now. =] Going back to books, I've bought quite (there it is again, I might as well go for a record) a few of them recently. Surprisingly though none of them have been actual novel/short story/book books. I've instead picked up Best-loved Folktales of the World, Poetry in English, (please don't laugh at me for this one) The Magic of Scarf Fashion...With the Scarf Clip, The Photographer's Handbook, and School The Story of American Public Education. Yes, somehow within two weeks time these are the books that managed to grab my attention and tickle my fancy (feel free to cringe along with me at the sight of that terrible cliche of a phrase). I've also managed to buy Barry Manilow on cassette and wear a shoelace as a headband. =/ The shoelace headband thought made me think of something that requires my indecisive mind to go back to the decade topic. One thing I do love about THIS decade is that ALL decades can co-exist in it. Nearly everything-give or take a few things that no one wants to come back into style (like stir-up pants and shoulder pads) is in. So I CAN be a flapper and I CAN be a hippie, and I CAN look mod, and wear a Sgt. Pepper's style jacket one day and an over sized sloppy Joe (50 bonus points for knowing what that is) the next. And I LOVE it! The thing I hate about this decade however, is that there isn't a key look, nothing that defines the era. Hoodies were huge for a while and for the most part still are, although I personally think the craze has died down. And ripped jeans were all the rage as well. But this is nothing. We have yet to come up with anything new, we find it cheaper and easier just to steal. And quite (cause I haven't used it in a while) frankly I don't like this. That's enough of my pointless, but hopefully entertaining to anyone who might read this, rant. I just wanted to blog cause I hadn't for a while, and though I wasn't depriving anyone of an amazing or gossip ridden read, I was robbing myself of some stress-reducing self prescribed therapy in a way. Blogging is my way of getting everything out, and oh I know what your thinking. "Boy was that risque and revealing!" haha Am I right? Well, you'll just have to come to terms that I'm a boring person who's worries and troubles involve school work, which tv dinner do I want to eat today, what my twitter status should read, and which one of my favorite tv shows that come on at the same time do I want to watch tonight?! Oh geez....Later. =]