Bisky's Twitterling's Scribbles! discussion

So here's a controversial post, because I love them oh so much :p

I've noticed a trend on twitter for celebrities (both what I would call 'normal' celebs as well as internet celebs) retweeting/reposting hate messages.

A certain famous makeup guru came underfire recently for answering a girl through a retweet. The sender turned out to be a sixteen year old girl (but I was kind of expected that knowing her audience). The guru was accused of 'sending' her fans to attack her.

I know some of you on the forum promote on social media and I was wondering, what do you think about that situation? Should people be held accountable for their tweets and have to bare the consequences if retweeted? Or should all hate messages just be ignored?

Twitter is a public forum. Anything you say can and will be held against you. *runs to twitter to type Eliza Dushku*

Ignore. Aint no one worth the time lol. My good friend Karma will take care of it :3

I think they should be held accountable. They are encouraging cyber bullying which is already a problem.

Let em tell you a story. My friend attended Vidcon this year. She is an intelligent, well-spoken and attractive mother of 3. While she was standing in a line, she saw something which had been retweeted several times. It was a picture of her backside taken by a video fashion blogger who stated that there were a lot of cool people at Vidcon but they'd let the fat moms in too. It traveled so fast that the original sender was still behind her in line. My friend is a true lady and ignored it. I'm not a true lady and probably would not have reacted so well. My point is that it is so easy for these things to turn into bullying. We need to be careful about what we send. This is especially true if you are a public figure.

I also think as public figures we need to strive to react like my friend did. If it's not going to hurt you professionally then there is no reason to react to the negativity. Yes, we are public figures even if we aren't famous. That is a herd one for me when I see other's attacked though. I really would have turned around and threatened to shove that girl at vicon's phone up her bony backside for attacking my friend.

That's bloody awful, who does something like that? I've heard some nasty things about Vidcon. There are some utter scumbags who have made it big in the last couple of years. The scandals have been pretty horrendous but played down and hidden really well. I think its like a certain popstar that everyone hates. Bullying and being a nasty piece of work is an easy way to get a following unfortunatly. And there will always be fans that defend them. It's scary as hell but kinda intersting how society reacts to it at the same time.

I think if you tweet something you write, you are definitely responsible for the contents. If you retweet something someone else has tweeted, if you do not include a comment of your own then you are seen to be accepting the contents of the tweet. If you retweet something and add a comment, then you are responsible for the comment. The comment may be supporting the tweet, answering a question or even pointing out how stupid or unbelievable a tweet is.

I like the point about tweeting Eliza Dushku! If only real life worked that way lol!

R. wrote: "I think if you tweet something you write, you are definitely responsible for the contents. If you retweet something someone else has tweeted, if you do not include a comment of your own then you ar..."

I think a retweet is definitely an endorsement of the original tweet. I know people (more on Facebook than Twitter) who share things without even reading them. Oftentimes what they've shared turns out to be a hoax or if fully read is something they don't even agree with.

I'll also add my own story about bullying. I, probably like many dorky kids who end up becoming writers, was bullied in middle school. I had the pleasure of running into the kid who broke my nose in 7th grade a couple of years ago. He was a clerk at the dollar store I had stopped at and I had to give a lecture that day for grad school so I was conveniently dressed in my professional best ;)

Our conversation at check out went as follows:
Ex-bully: "Haha, I remember you. Remember when I punched you in the face?"
Me: "Remember that time you worked at a dollar store? Gonna bag that?"

Bullies enjoy being a being fish in whatever little pond they can make for themselves but usually, unless they grow out of their bullying ways, don't succeed at the game of life.

He brought up past physical bullying like that? What a whelk.

It's pretty strange the stuff that people say. I had a pretty traumatic incident when I was a teen that a lot of people knew about (small town) but not many people knew the full details. Last time I went back home I saw someone from my highschool and they instantly brought it up! Laughing about it, judging my reactions and giving me their opinion. Uhm, thanks. That's really what I want to talk about. *Flees back to Scandinavia*

I think sometimes people just don't understand the implications of what they say.

Bisky wrote: "I think sometimes people just don't understand the implications of what they say. "

They totally don't. There was this kid in sixth grade who bullied me and years later in my early twenties I saw him and some of his mates at a train station, in the dark, just me and them. They were dressed in their homie clothes and I fully expected an altercation of some sort. Instead he tried to give me one of those complicated homie handshakes and the look on his face was like, "why are you being so defensive".

I just walked away laughing. I'm not your mate, never was, so why act like it now?

I think peoples mentality on social media is a lot like that, they don't think, let alone think their words might hurt someone.

Makes you wonder if people like in Cassandra's example would say the things they say if they knew the person could see/hear.

I believe you should ignore all hate messages. Block and move on.

Better to forgive and to forget.