It's hard to trust people who spend their time advancing personal agendas at other’s expense or inconvenience. While we can walk out on deals when a sales person starts laying on extra heavy deal closer moves, there is something especially galling and intrusive about vermin who lurk around social media sites built on consensus and trust, attempting to advance an agenda behind the faceless anonymity of typed interchanges.
Whether the offenders are predators injecting paranoia by requesting sexual services, get-rich-quick boneheads plying lamebrain pseudo-pyramid schemes for raking money off the top by making money off the uninitiated, or even the silly bandwidth-wasting schemes for attracting a bajillion twitter followers, I don’t understand the social media abuser genre in general, but wish they would either shut up or jump off a bridge.
Don’t personally understand why anyone even cares about number of Twitter followers. As long as your following includes people who communicate with you (or at least that you would be willing to communicate with), empathize with you, and otherwise help you understand yourself and others (while you hopefully return the favor), 20 followers is as good as 2000, and a helluva lot easier to follow. Spammers don’t communicate with you, waste your time, and abuse your bandwidth. In the case of unsolicited pervs, there is good scientific evidence that tar and feathers is an appropriate medical treatment for the disorder.
You can get a lot of interpersonal understanding from the angst and limit-testing curses than is immediately obvious, and there is often more purpose to these faceless and non-physical exchanges than realizable while they are taking place. As you understand your neighbors, you understand yourself better. We all go together, if we don’t do so we may never arrive at the right place.
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