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So we have all heard of the drunk dial. Some of us have even participated in the activity. Even the iPhone has an app to help you drunk dial –it is sort of a Russian roulette with your stored phone numbers (see video above). Despite this app , it is widely known that “friends do not let friends drunk dial”.
Just as the drunk dial has been around pretty much since the introduction of the telephone, we are now capable of partaking in an even more self destructive behaviour, which I like to call Tantrum Twittering (I am sure someone will coin a much more catchy term than this very soon). Celebrities, everyday people, even corporate representatives and business owners have been tweeting, updating their Facebook statuses, and blogging without thinking about the consequences of their actions.
Examples of people who have fallen victim to the lure of excessive Tantrum Twittering include Redskin Linebacker Robert Henson, who recently heckled heckling fans right back via Twitter. He later apologized for calling fans “dim wits” and “McDonalds workers” (wtf?). He also deleted his Twitter account. Henson is not the only athlete who has Tantrum Tweeted. There is also Darren Bent, Charlie Villanueva, and Antonio Cromartie, among others.
On the celebrity tweet front, the first tantrum tweeting that is likely to pop into most people’s heads would be Lindsay Lohan’s airing her and Samantha Ronson’s dirty laundry for all the Twittersphere to read. “I was right all along. Cheat.” tweets Lindsay. Of course, if you bother to look up Lohan’s Twitter page, she seems to have not learned anything from the incident. Of course there are more examples, surprisingly none of whom are Kanye West. In Kanye’s defence, he does not have a Twitter account and he has ranted about Twitter.
Despite other people’s bad examples, let’s all agree to take a deep breath, reread our 140 character rant, and take another deep breath before clicking Twitter’s update button.