Girls Behind The Screens: A Look At Subtweeting Culture
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Girls Behind The Screens: A Look At Subtweeting Culture

Are you familiar with the infamous "sub-tweet" and indirect culture we have nowadays?

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Girls Behind The Screens: A Look At Subtweeting Culture
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Girls. Let's be honest, most, if not all of us have sat behind our screens and wrote up a post targeting a certain someone or someone(s). Even if it wasn't a nasty or insulting post, I am sure that it has happened. For girls, it seems as though we find it easier to express our thoughts, negative or positive, behind the screen where we aren't face-to-face with opposition. The computer, our phones, iPads, etc. all electronics we have these days are all contributing gateways to "moral security." Now, people can so easily play a role of someone that they're not behind this gate of moral security.

In this generation, most of the world relies on social media, the internet, and cell phones as a means of communication and news outlets. Being behind the screen gives you the option to create a fake profile, a fake name, a whole fake persona to hide behind as well. Some people have chosen to do that where others choose just to pose as themselves. The traditional "phone call" has become less common and is slowly devolving. Traditional means of communication are even giving themselves up to technology. What happened to having a problem and legitimately talking it out? Instead of meeting up with your friend or calling he/she up about what's bothering you, we now have those things called "subtweets." Instead of facing the facts and emotions and being direct, girls more often than not pull up their Twitter, post a tweet sub directly to the person they're angry with and expect that person to see the Tweet and then expect it's about them. It blows my mind how anybody thinks that a subtweet will do anyone any good. All it does is cause another reason to argue with that person and not settle the current issue.

Another issue about us girls behind screens is that we find it a whole lot easier to hide the truth while using our hands to talk and not our voices. Without speaking and using writing to express a thought, there can more times than not, be accusation and lying. I can personally say that I've dealt with this issue of accusation first hand. It's really not a fun time at all, and quite frustrating. Girls can be nasty, and when you're being lied about through social media it's even more devastating because there's not really anything you can do about it besides hope that people won't believe the accusations and try to defend yourself in the most mature way you can without fighting back.

I know many of you are thinking, "well guys can and have done the same thing, not just girls." Well, yes that is true, anybody can sit behind their screen and comment back to a post or write something insulting, however, the female world tends to lay in a more competitive and jealous field than males. Being a girl myself, I can say that I have encountered many scenarios that just seemed straight out ridiculous. However, girls enjoy drama, it's in our nature. Deep, deep down we all have a sense of some type of drama craving personas.

I encourage anyone reading this not to participate in the "sub-tweet" and build up the courage to talk with someone face to face.


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