Another brilliant piece from a GUNNAS WRITING MASTERCLASS writer
I have an online addiction. It’s available 24/7 and it’s free. I actively engage in it, in private and in public. It fills my mind with possibilities, it arouses curiosity, it stimulates me, I see new ideas, I gain experience and the best part is I use my largest organ to do it all! Perfect foreplay.
Many of you reading this indulge in my newly discovered addiction. In fact millions of people worldwide do it!
My addiction – Twitter. Or as Abbott calls it ‘electronic graffiti’. I love Twitter’s brevity and catchiness. It makes you think more and say less. It is a forum for parody and puns. And it flexes its muscles in the arena of politics. Active shirt fronting of Tones is currently in full swing. Putin would be proud!
Twitter is an ultra-bright spotlight under which the Abbott regime has been analysed, satirised and deconstructed by the ‘ordinary people’. The humour and wit abound on Twitter about the twit running the country and his Cabinet of The Apes. The message is clear in the toppling of the Newman government – never underestimate the power of the people.
The humour on Twitter is wonderful. And engaging. Who’d have thunk there were so many clever and funny ‘ordinary’ people out there? As a lover of language I thrive on the Twitter word parlance and the laughter it causes. I am hooked just for that.
So I admit I am in the initial euphoric ‘love’ phase with Twitter but on this Valentine’s Day 2015 I hope it’s an everlasting union.