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junglejustine:

I’m pretty sure that most of us have found solace in the world that is Twitter. I mean, initially after complaining at first about how “you don’t get it” or “its dumb and confusing”, we’ve quickly come to terms with our twitter fascination. Its become the AOL chat room of 2009. I’m on it, you’re on it, and my dog even has one (I actually run that one too). For fucks sake, even newscasters throw out their twitter name every night and celebrities made it their staple lurk page for retarded fans curious about what they’re eating or doing at that moment. But I’m not really concerned with all the cool shit about the site. My gripe has to do with the sheer etiquette of it. Actually let me rephrase, relationships and twitter.

I had dated this guy for awhile and he was obsessed with his twitter. We would go out to dinner and when I wasn’t looking, he would tweet at the dinner table. When we would get out of the movies, he would check his twitter stats and retweets, “YES I GOT 6 NEW FOLLOWERS TODAY!!”. At first, it didn’t bother me but then I got curious as to what the fuck he was tweeting about all day. So after our nights were over, I would flip my computer on and see all this conversation back and fourth between girls and him.. he would never mention me by the way in his “daily” tweets. I tried to not let it get to me but I was hooked. I constantly questioned him why he wouldn’t tweet back to me, who the HELL is @sweetsugarlips, and why he kept RT her quotes. I was seriously BUGGING THE FUCK OUT.

Finally I realized that I needed to calm down and stop referencing back to another internet forum. There was no point, its kind of like a more updated myspace/facebook jealously.. and believe me I had my share of that. But I had already lost the guy, he was forever stuck in the twitter world.
And this isn’t the last time where I encountered relationship problems unfolding before my eyes on twitter. People do it all the time, I’ve had people request me to delete something I replied to them on cause their GF would freak out. I’ve had friends talk to me in frustration about how their BF wont call them all day but will RT and tweet like there’s no tomorrow, then hit em up like nothing happened.

So on that note, lets get back to the etiquette part. Relationships aren’t ever going to escape jealously, and in this modern day, internet jealously is constantly in full bloom.

What you can do to ease it or possibly prevent it, I feel is basically this:


• If you think your BF/GF is going to flip out by something you said on twitter, don’t tweet it.
• Try to refrain from flirting cause its magnified by 100 on the internet (silly I know).
• Don’t try to hide your twitter page/keep it private, cause they will find it and hell will break loose.
• Call/text them throughout the day in between your 40 RTs.
• Don’t ever tweet at the dinner table (unless they are doing it too, then its a free for all and you guys can @ reply to each other).
• OR you could just delete your twitter, that would really show your devotion.

But we all know that would never happen.

(via theboobs)