1445 Narcisso-Tweet

I commented recently about a pseudo celebrity who keeps herself in the media’s clouded eye by tweeting and facebooking ever-outrageous pronouncements. If you had any doubts about her motives for self-aggrandizement, look no further than her recent attempt to copyright her name.
I, for one, refuse to use her name, as it just gets her one more hit in the blogosphere, and one more hit of fleeting fame. But what’s interesting about her technique is she has grasped the amazing utility of social media.
You are in charge of your own narcissistic news releases.
In the old days, news releases from organizations or seekers of self-induced fame were cumbersome printed or faxed affairs. They involve the “who what when where” formula real news agencies preferred, and if they were obviously too self-serving, were roundly ignored by the receiving news entity.
There was, frankly, a vetting process. No longer. If you have proven sufficiently controversial or outlandish in the past, and therefore sold newspapers, or enabled that new measure of success—online hits to virtual newspapers—your newest tweeted drivel will be published virtually vett free.
So that’s why they purvey that pointless pontificating, you say. Too true. The media pander to the crazy celebrity. Or it’s own need for online pimping. Getting hits, or tricks, means success.
Which comes back to us. We as a people do the hitting. We’re the Johns. If we’re scanning news headlines and open up articles involving the rabid personality poodles, it’s our fault for perpetuating the self-promotional prostitutes.
So think before you click. If you are really tired of certain whack jobs, don’t even hover your mouse over a headline about them.
My mom had good advice about such folk., long before Twitter.
Ignore them and they’ll go away.
America, ya gotta love it.