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Christi Diggs
on May 23 2013 - 06:00 AM
A drop of spin, a cup of deception and tsp. politics=Apathy
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I gotta say, the whole Larry Johnson thing just really helps me as a parent.
Seriously. Because I’m always, always, always telling my kids to think before they speak – or in this case, write. Or text.
Most adults have a functioning brain-mouth filter. You know, everything they think doesn’t necessarily come out their mouths, at least in public. That filter doesn’t always work inside the confines of the family unit, but that’s a blog for another day – maybe Thanksgiving…
Anywho, you know what happened with L.J. Hours after the Kansas City Chiefs lost to San Diego, he was all atwitter on Twitter, dissing his coach and other people and basically acting kind of juvenile.
Hey, I’m not judging him for speaking out. Who among us hasn’t talked smack about our bosses at one time or another?
But most of us probably wouldn’t do that on Twitter. Maybe we’d send an e-mail, and there are well-documented cases of folks griping about work and their colleagues and bosses and then accidentally sending it out in a mass e-mail. Pretty embarrassing.
L.J., however, did it on Twitter. That’s like a party line. You sometimes have no idea who’s listening or following you. People use handles. And if you’re a public figure, you can bet some reporter at least has one ear tuned toward what you’re doing, trying to catch you doing something dumb.
In our family, we’ve had a few of these sorts of issues crop up since the oldest kid got a phone last January. He’s had it taken away several times for inappropriate texting.
Here’s an example of inappropriate texting in our book: Our son got into it by text with his female cousin who’s in the same grade. And so he cleverly decided to call her a bad word by texting it one letter at a time.
Only here’s the thing: She was pissed at him anyway. So when he texted that five-letter word, one letter at a time, she just forwarded them to me, telling me what he was doing.
Like I’ve told him time and time again, it’s one thing to get into a verbal altercation. That’s pretty bad. But when you do it in writing, it rarely goes away.
You’d think L.J. would know this, but I think he’s like so many people in this age of social media. They think everyone in the world wants to know what they’re thinking right at that minute. Thus Twitter. Why else would it exist?
(In the interest of full disclosure, I reveal that I have a Twitter account and also spend a lot of time on Facebook, typing status updates about my kids and my dogs and my day and my predilection for candy corn…)
But I have a theory, and I call it evolution and it goes like this: The rise of social media is causing the human brain to change in such a way that the brain-mouth filter is becoming obsolete. It’s vestigial, like the appendix and male nipples.
Maybe L.J. is just way ahead of the curve.
If you love Candy Corn as much as I do you should try mixing it with some salty peanuts. Makes a homemade Payday.....you get your lovely candy corn and protein to boot.... I think this whole thing is blown out of proportion. Yeah he should have watched his mouth......In full disclosure, I think Twitter rocks, and I think you can blame me for getting you started on this social medium. But we gotta stay connected less our kids communicate in ways we cannot fathom.... Did you see NBA banned players from using Twitter & Facebook DURING the game. Wonder when the Chiefs will start banning players from using Twitter DURING the ENTIRE season?My mama always said- don't put ANYTHING in writing that you don't want the whole world to know... because once it's written down you have no control. My facebook updates are more "Off to OT!" and "If a chicken clucks in an empty field, is it still dinner?" and less emo/gossip/ZOMG.mmm, you had me until "Candycorn", then I kinda drifted off.... lol... very timely, good lesson for the kids and your son's cousin is kinda brilliant. I am fairly certain that anyone who participates in any fb/twitter/myspace activity has posted something regret worthy at some point. Even the best filters breakdown, especially if candycorn is present.I think it's just one more example of why it's an embarrassment for KC to pay LJ one more cent. He's so unprofessional. I, personally, despise twitter and spend much more time and energy on Facebook. Twitter just seems like a bunch of people randomly talking (and trying to sell their sh*t) all at once and it makes my brain hurt. I only begrudgingly tweet. And I'm sorry, but... candy corn? Makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it. Blech.Wow, I sounded like a little ray of sunshine, didn't I? Ha! Let me add... your blog made me laugh out loud, especially when you said "male nipples." LOL!Yes, Margo, it's all your fault. I still can't figure Twitter out, though. I guess it would help if it updated to my phone, but I don't carry my phone with me much, so that wouldn't help...mmmm orange and yellow candy corn (non of that brown stuff!) and the little pumpkins too! Yummy! Umm oh yeah Larry Johnson, I just ignore him and anything else from the Chiefs.
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