Erica Piper

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Saw this on this girl’s blog, had to post it.

There are still many people in this world that refuse to give into the ever-so-cool social networking site, Twitter. I think it’s silly because you know deep down inside, all you nay sayers are going to end up getting one anyway. Might as well just join the crowd, sign up and follow muah(Twitter.com/Sunshiiine, lol). Also, quit the mockery, it’ll save you some humiliation when us Tweoples say “I told you so”. Just like when people stayed away from Facebook and listed all the flaws it had compared to MySpace. Now I catch them updating their status constantly and therefore I said “I told you so”.

1. Hear the word Twitter.  Scoff.
2. Hear it again from someone else.  Scoff again.
3. Hear about famous celebrity who is apparently “On Twitter.”  Scoff, but make mental note to check it out.
4. Log into Facebook to comfort self.
5. Sign up for Twitter.
6. Give up because it seems dumb.
7. Loudly criticize others on Twitter.
8. Follow @johncmayer, @aplusk, @rainnwilson, @wilw, @mrskutcher, @oprah, and one other person you actually know.
9. Post tweet that is a variant of: “Trying out this Twitter thing.”
10. Attempt to dig a little deeper into Twitter.
11. Notice rampant usage of words: “Tweet,” “Twitter,” “Twitterverse,” “Tweetie,” “Tweetdeck,” and something called “RT.”
12. Scoff again, this time in confusion.
13. Tell friends you “tried that Twitter thing, but didn’t get it and it’s stupid anyway.”
14. Log into Facebook because that site at least makes sense.
15. Read story about Twitter somewhere. 
16. Log back into Twitter.  
17. Try to avoid saying Tweet, Twitter, Twitterverse, Tweetie, Tweetdeck, and ReTweet.
18. Respond to @rainnwilson.
19. Curse self for fanning out.
20. Log off for 4 months.
21. Come back, just to see.
22. Post something relatively funny.
23. Get RT’d.
24. Discover that RT means ReTweet.
25. Make it your life mission to get RT’d.
26. Install Twitter app on your phone.
27. No longer ashamed to say “I’ve gotta Twitter that.”
28. Attend events with the sole intention of “Tweeting” them.
29. Pray to get RT’d.
30. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh.
31. Close computer.
32. Open computer.  Refresh.  Refresh.  Refresh.
33. Think in 140 character sentences.
34. Compulsively check phone all day every day.
35. Tweet that you compulsively check phone all day every day.
36. Alienate actual people in your life in an attempt to impress ones you don’t know.
37. Lose weight because you forget to eat.
38. Place phone by bed so you can check first thing in the morning.
39. Defend Twitter to the death from detractors.
40. Hear self, and vaguely recognize that you have become “That Guy.”
41. Feel like, and start to behave like River Tam.
42. Vow to quit Twitter to preserve sanity.
43. Read this and change mind.  
44. Think to self, “I should twitter that.”
45. Recognize irony.
46. Twitter it.

I’ll be keeping this short and sweet because I need to leave for class soon, but I just hate it when people try to get all high and mighty on you with their “I liked [insert band name here] before they were famous” bullshit. Fucking congratulations! I mean I’m pretty sure that when a band makes music, the whole idea is that they want to reach out to a lot of different people with their music and touch a lot of different lives, not just a small group of indie wannabes who think they’re better than everyone else and who try to justify their uniqueness by the music they listen to. You’re really NOT THAT COOL. And especially to say that you don’t like a band or a song now because it became popular… So immature. I mean I felt this way when I was maybe like 15 (“Fall Out Boy sucks now because their songs are sooo overplayed”) but I mean, come on, we are ADULTS. Grow up. The popularity that a band gains over the years in NO WAY changes their talent. Especially if it’s just one song (yes it’s true that bands change styles and their music can become more “mainstream” once they get popular, but that’s a whole other subject, to be discussed on another day). If you liked a song a year ago and now that it’s on the radio and you hear it at parties, bars, etc., it’s still the SAME song.  The only thing that’s changed is you and your opinion of it, because now that everyone likes the song you can no longer tell yourself how unique and cool you are for liking something that nobody else has heard of.

I know several people like this and they are all adults who should definitely have other means of feeling good about themselves. Ask any band who has “made it big” and I’m sure they would tell you that they are THRILLED that people from all across the social spectrum like their music. Get over yourself, and grow up. It’s music.

I will be getting a phone call from my Internship Advisor to talk about internship opportunities I will have to choose from for this upcoming summer in Los Angeles. Despite my crazy semester and all the work I have to do right now, I’m completely stoked to take the time out of my day to talk to this lady and get this stuff set up. I’m SO glad I decided to just go for it and apply, I know that this is going to be a great experience. And it seems as though the best life decisions I make (so far) are made as kind of last-minute, on a whim decisions. When I decided to go to France it was something I had been wanting to do and thinking about for a couple years, and then when the time came to apply I wasn’t sure. But I made the decision and within a few weeks everything was all set in stone, and within a couple months I was gone. And it was THE GREATEST experience I’ve had thus far in my life. Hopefully spending 8 weeks in LA this summer will be equally as life-changing. :)