Comments on: Well, we know who the real twit is… http://charleen.mullenweg.com/2010/01/07/well-we-know-who-the-real-twit-is/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:26:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: charleen http://charleen.mullenweg.com/2010/01/07/well-we-know-who-the-real-twit-is/#comment-4521 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:10:49 +0000 http://charleen.mullenweg.com/?p=1210#comment-4521 Hi len! When objectively reading this post, I see where I skipped the trial and went straight to the verdict.
I have been writing a blog for a long time now, but I am not a high traffic site. Usually, when I do get a comment, it’s a friend or family or spam. I think that, in such an environment, it becomes natural for an author to succumb to a false sense of approval of their work and opinion; when really the author is just casting that opinion into the vast reaches of the internet where readers have many opinions.
Add to that, the fact that I had been turning over that post in my head for several hours before being able to write it, and had long since made up my mind on the matter.
So, you are very correct – I have lost objective credibility, and I appreciate you calling me on that. Why? Well my family would say that I love to argue, and that may be true, but I also hate to catch myself being that rigid on a stance. The fact exists that I am no authority on the matter, and am basically writing in a journal, but in making it public, I owe it to anyone who reads it to own my opinions and not present them as fact.
Was that article condescending of a generic group of people that chose to use Twitter as a cheap and creative way to build their image? Yes, I feel that it was. Should that group of people have known better? Yes, but I do have a caveat: I think those people also exist in a sort of bubble where they can control what is said about them and what is said to them (to a certain extent). I think they had a bit of a wake up call to what people like Brittney Spears have known for a long time – that celebrity brings with it a loss of control over your own identity and image, and the only thing you can do is spin it to your benefit and pray that it works.
I’m only sorry that, in the case of Felicia, who seems to be a genuinely nice person (and a Texan! ;) ), that this happened in such a shocking fashion to her.
Ok, I’ve rambled too much … :)

]]> By: charleen http://charleen.mullenweg.com/2010/01/07/well-we-know-who-the-real-twit-is/#comment-4520 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:33:41 +0000 http://charleen.mullenweg.com/?p=1210#comment-4520 You’ve never heard that? Or are you rediscovering it? ;) A long time ago, I worked at a Boy Scout camp where we were required to substitute the word ‘opportunity’ for ‘problem’ or ‘crisis’ when speaking on the radios. I got so sick of the word ‘opportunity’ by the end of camp that I don’t think I used that word for a full year afterwards.

]]> By: len http://charleen.mullenweg.com/2010/01/07/well-we-know-who-the-real-twit-is/#comment-4519 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:25:42 +0000 http://charleen.mullenweg.com/?p=1210#comment-4519 And you are dismissive to the point of losing objective credibility. It isn’t about them deserving the article. It is about posting as if they didn’t know what was coming after the photo shoot while claiming to be media-savvy.

Really. Protest. Wind up the springs. Discuss away. Sell issues.

But the fact remains, if the goal is to get everyone to take these people more seriously, expect some drops in attendance. It couldn’t get more boring than that.

]]> By: Lloyd Budd http://charleen.mullenweg.com/2010/01/07/well-we-know-who-the-real-twit-is/#comment-4518 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:46:48 +0000 http://charleen.mullenweg.com/?p=1210#comment-4518 I love the term “launching pad”. I’m going to use that as an alt for “opportunity”, which I use too much ;-)

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