Wanna Tweet?

Uncle Bubba is not one to jump onto new trends, though he might slowly slide into one. He likes to use a computer and appreciates a good smartphone but he is, for example, anti Facebook. Not only that but has only seen nothing but trouble come from Twitter. What one posts as innocuous brain dribble turns into a scathing social reprimand. However, recently Uncle Bubba learned that if he were to tweet, he could post pictures. For a moment, like a flash of lightening he thought he might break down and sign up for Twitter. Then he just as quickly realized that he was doing it for all of the wrong reasons. He wanted to share little moments of his life with his loved ones. That's when the second flash of insight hit him like his old man cuffing him on the back of the head; no one cares. Perhaps that's Bubbie exposing his maturity, after all he's not the young buck he used to be. And he's smart enough to know that if his family and friends care enough to follow him, to wonder what he is up to, they would just ask him. But Twitter, like Facebook and the like are for a narcissistic society, an exercise in expression, not attention. Uncle Bubba only needs a few friends that take moments out of their busy lives to listen to his ideas, his hopes, his dreams. In Bubbie's view, if he tweets it will only be to send highfalutin, loquacious text litter into cyberspace, just like everyone else.