I spend too much time on Twitter
With hashtags used as norm
With @s instead of titles
And other tweeted form
But best of all I’m now precise
With less to say than more
So I won’t bore you down the pub
Where fewer words ensure
More time to raise a glass up
With friendly cheers to you
So make mine a gin and tonic please!
In fact make that a few!
We use abbreviations all the time now and now more so on Twitter where we are limited to 150 characters! This poem is dedicated to “Twitter Tongue”. It could be an epic fail but the idea is that you read the abbreviations out in full “English”. It’s actually harder than you think to write especially as I’ve tried to get it to rhyme but good luck! There’s a translation at the end!
YOLO
SO! LOL!
IMHO!
PPL! FTC!
B/C AFAIK
W #FF
PRT DA RT
& HAND!
Translation:
You only live once
Shout out! Laugh out loud!
In my humble opinion
People follow the crowd!
Because as far as I know
With Follow Friday
Please retweet the retweet
And have a nice day!
Free twitter badge (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
There’s the observers, the partakers
The stalkers and much more
All operating on the line
Of cyberspace for sure
The contributors, the posters
The ones who sit and read
All wrapped in social networking
A new sort that we breed
The bloggers and the web masters
The programmers; the rest
All living in the modern world
That shares a common nest
The nest or is that really web
World wide community
The question then remains to know
Which sort are you and me?
English: www,domain,internet,web,net (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The promise is an owl, they said
A bird of prey that could
Save each and every one for sure
And get them out the wood
Yet give each wisdom, give them flight
With wings to be so free
Nocturnal sight through darker times
And there you might just see
A bird that would surpass the hoot
That flapped all red and blue
An owl for everyone, they said
Rhetoric or tweettwoo?
Eastern Screech Owl (Photo credit: Vicki’s Nature)
Once upon a land there was
A state where all could be
Exactly who they wanted to
Across humanity
A place where what appeared was not
Always just what it seemed
Save a projection; conjecture
Expression all but dreamed
A place where life’s reality
Could vanish; disappear
But still a place that was so real
Accessed throughout the year
And yet this place did not exist
Not on a map or chart
But in the world of internet
The cyber network’s heart
An icon from icon theme Crystal Clear. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Let me tell you a story
Of a man on a phone
He walked down the street
By himself all alone
With head dropped so forward
His arms up to grip
The object – his smart phone
Lest dare it might slip
His eyes were affixed
His gaze held quite true
As he opened his apps
And his messages too
He scrolled down through Facebook
And posted a tweet
All along as he walked
With his phone down the street
And not once it is said
Did he look where he trod
The man on a mission
With a steady plod plod
And then he arrived
At a curbside by road
And stepped off the pavement
Not changing his mode
He walked out not looking
And then with a bang
With a crash and collision
His phone left to hang
Left to hang from his body
Blood pouring from head
The man on his phone
His status: “I’m dead”
Even when it’s bitter cold, New Yorkers like to tap away on their iPads (Photo credit: Ed Yourdon)
Are you invisible
Do you exist
Imaginary friend
In a world with a twist
Where those who we contact
Who we know just by name
Who we see but an image of
Who present in a frame
With a profile
A status
A handle; a cue
All wrapped up in binary
But are you all true?
These friends that we make
Who we tweet to and text
Or message and snapchat
Or whatever next
Do you live in the world
In reality’s way
Or is this cyber-existence
Mere illusion today!
Social Media Buzz (Photo credit: ivanpw)
There is a wagon rolling
On the way called “Jokers Road”
A carriage or a coach perhaps
Where humour can unload
A zany, playful, happy place
Where fun is all the biz
Tomfoolery and old hi-jinks
That buzz with kick and fizz
But careful if you board it
For you need to understand
That the banter wagon can upturn
Unless you can withstand
The raillery and funny gags
That lads and lasses band about
All in the name of craic, as
They chaff and shout it out!
There are parts of social media
I just don’t get at all
The bits of social behaviour
That really make us fall
From what it is to be human
A social breed or race
When some behave so hideously
A networking disgrace
For give someone a notebook or
A phone or some device
And Facebook or Twitter access
They might be not so nice
For something in our brain thinks when
There’s distance then involved
That etiquette and empathy
Can then just be dissolved
That things that would never be said
Can be uttered in a text
Or on a Facebook status, tweet
Good grief! Whatever next!
And then there is the culling as
Though people are like birds
Not that birds should be culled anyway
It’s really quite absurd!
So be careful how you network
What you say and what you do
Be considerate on Facebook
In your texts, on Twitter too
And think how you would like to be
Treated so carefully
And act to others in a way
That you would have them be
so-many-social-networks (Photo credit: socialmediahq)
Ginz&Tonic 