reflections on Twitter - by Siddharth - cybermonk

I’ve been active on Twitter since some time last spring—a full year and a bit. I reached a thousand followers in March, and attained the present count of nearly 3400 followers ten days ago. Suddenly, I’d had enough. I started tweeting in order to validate my thoughts. As an adult, I have always felt the need to conceal the way I really feel, to add footnotes and disclaimers to my beliefs, to frame and reframe each statement until it’s simultaneously bulletproof and completely trivial. This is a frustrating thing. You feel like nobody understands you, because you don’t tell them who you are and how you want to be treated, because you’ve been taught that revealing what you really think usually results in sideways glances and nervous laughter and ignored messages and disinvitation from parties. Twitter helped me break out of that cage. By writing thousands of honest tweets and receiving responses from many kinds of people, I was able to obtain a more balanced understanding of how my thoug

I’ve been active on Twitter since some time last spring—a full year and a bit. I reached a thousand followers in March, and attained the present count of nearly 3400 followers ten days ago. Suddenly, I’d had enough. I started tweeting in order to validate my thoughts. As an adult, I have always felt the need to conceal the way I really feel, to add footnotes and disclaimers to my beliefs, to frame and reframe each statement until it’s simultaneously bulletproof and completely trivial. This is a frustrating thing. You feel like nobody understands you, because you don’t tell them who you are and