Last year, I watched my Twitter timeline with horrified fascination as a woman tweeted an entire wedding. Moment by moment, complete with pictures on her iPhone uploaded to TwitPics, she covered that wedding from the first preparations through the reception dinner. Now, it’s true that some of the things she said were mildly amusing, but this was the wedding for her own child! Somehow that seemed in very poor taste to me.
In fact, if I had been that hapless bride, I think I’d have stopped that preacher in mid-sentence. I’d have hitched up my skirt, marched over to my Momma, and wagged my finger right in her face to give her a “come to Jesus” speech. I’d have said, “Momma, you’d better straighten up and fly right, or I’m not going to invite you to my next wedding!”
That would put a stop to it.
What do y’all think about that? Do you think the tweeter crossed the line to being a twit?
Cross my heart, I won’t be tweeting the wedding this weekend. In fact, I rarely use Twitter anymore after reading about that wedding. It soured me on the experience (but you might find me on Facebook … but not telling you about the wedding as it is happening). No doubt about it, I’m going to tell you about my trip, and show you the cowboy boots I painted for the centerpieces, and probably show you the bride and groom … and Mendocino … and take you on a ghost hunt … but none of that will be done in “real time.”
I simply can’t understand why anyone would think it appropriate to give a play-by-play to 3,275 “friends” on a social network, instead of being involved in the moment. I wonder if that little gal is going to let Momma come in the hospital room with her iPhone when she delivers the first grandbaby?
Oh, crap. I hope I didn’t give her any ideas!
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Insane! Reminds me a bit of the parents of years past who recorded every frickin’ moment of their child’s life on video yet never stopped out from behind the camera to actually engage in the child’s life. Only the tweeting twit is far, far worse than that. My daughter certainly would have taken a timeout mid-wedding to confiscate my phone if I had been such a twit.
Best wishes for a fabulous twitter- and twit-free wedding!
Exactly what I mean, Lisa. I just cannot believe that people think it’s more important to record the images than to LIVE them.
I have had a Twitter account for a number of years and never really got the hang of it. Okay -to be honest -I just didn’t enjoy/like it at all. My preference leans much more to Facebook and blogging. Probably because I can never say what I feel needs to be said in 140 characters or less. LOL
Oh yes. I don’t like being limited to 140 characters either. But, I figure that y’all don’t need to know things in “real time.” I can tell you about it later (and I will!).
I have, all too often, been guilty of experiencing life from behind a camera. But I’ve made a concerted effort to put my camera down, where ever we are, whatever we’re doing, to actually ‘look’ at what is happening, and actually experience it. I don’t know why we have this urge to document and share everything, especially when doing so removes us from the moment. Although I still photograph and blog, I gave up my cell phone years ago and refuse to have one now. Guess I’m an anachronism, but I don’t want to be connected 24/7.
Have fun, Shelly, and fight the machine!
Thank you, Van. I find it tempting to view life from a camera, too. If my pictures were as good as yours, it would be a greater temptation. Now, giving up the cell phone I could never do. You are a better man than I am.
I find Twitter to be just hideously boring, and you don’t seem like a boring person to me. Having just married off a son, I predict you’ll be pleasantly preoccupied at the rehearsal dinner. You’ll be rapt, nostalgic, and sentimental at the ceremony itself, and you won’t want to miss a single second of it. And hopefully you’ll be having a blast at the reception. Anyway, congratulations on the marriage, best wishes to the bride and groom, have a terrific time in California, and tell us all about it–when you get back.
Thanks for all the good wishes, Anne. It IS going to be a terrific time. I can tell you about it while I am here, because I am on “Texas time,” unfortunately. When I get home, I may need to sleep for a week.
Oh well, if you’re not tweeting the whole wedding I’m putting down my crochet hook! ;D
Do what? You know darned well that you are crocheting for the kids!
If you want an update, give me your phone number and I’ll talk your arm off about it … later. Trust me, you’ll be sorry you did!
This was priceless- nice to read a social network story that makes me laugh instead of someone getting fired cuz she put on Facebook she dated her Instructor’s nephew’s best friend (or maybe it was a first cousin, twice removed).
You wrote so eloquently about your probable reaction that I actual saw you(the bride) hoisting up her dress and stomping over to corsage wearing mother.
You know they were line dancing at the rehearsal- I bet she put her IPhone for that >-)
great post!!
Now, Ridgely, we won’t knock line dancing (it’s not just twits who do that!). But, I doubt the woman put down her phone for line dancing!
Thanks for the kudos.
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