All The Twitty Girls
Every guy who attended high school remembers the popular girls.
Their slow-motion walk down the hallway made the nerds cower in prepubescent fear and the jocks sweaty with anticipation.
Good looks and flawless fashion sense raised their status to rock star levels while we toiled away on the periphery, forever yearning to be in their good graces. A simple nod of acknowledgment was all we asked, but in the back of our minds we knew that we never stood a chance.
From that unattainable goal comes a deep-seated resentment that their outward appearance and popularity will take them places in life we can only dream of going.
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This article in Vanity Fair is exactly why people hate Twitter.
Everybody is encouraged to interact, but there is a clearly defined "in" crowd that becomes evident the more you participate.
No matter if you follow unofficial Twitter etiquette to a T, you start to see the same people's tweets retweeted and replied to, which gives the impression that most users just want to draw attention to themselves from, to borrow a phrase from the article, the "twilebrities."
Compound that idea with the fact that the woman portrayed in the article are young and good-looking, and you start to wonder, "What's the point?"
The attractive people are still winning.
It's high school all over again.
Nothing has changed.
