Common Highschool Twitter errors

Whether it's because of boredom or lack of maturity, Highschoolers make at least 5 fatal twitter errors which may cause extreme loss of followers. Highschoolers, be warned.

5 Common Highschool Tweet Errors

1. Ex-Boyfriend/Ex-Girlfriend Tweets

We don't want to hear you vent. Twitter may give you the illusion that you are free to speak your mind. You are, but nobody apreciates slander or desperate pleas for attention. Sad but true. When you want to tweet, JOURNAL.

2. Inside Joke Tweets

If you're the only person who can understand your tweet, then don't post it. Instead, join the conversation that happens when people understand what you're saying.

3. Potty Humor Tweets

Especially annoying in girls. Please guys, talking about your underwear stopped being cool in the third grade.

4. Excessive Celebrity Shoutout Tweets

There's nothing wrong in telling your hero they rocked at the concert, or asking them a genuine question. Most Artists are very happy to join in intelligent conversation and you may even be surprized when they respond!
However, tweeting "OMG U ROCK @joejonas!!!!!" 40 times a day is not going to help you gain followers or gain respect from your hero, either.

5. Hot Guy Tweets

This common girl error was brought to my attention by a male tweeter who was severly annoyed. Girls, when it comes to how hot you think taylor lautner is: we. don't. care.


Twitter is a wonderful way to share information and engage in conversation. Be mindful of the other people around you. Be aware that you have something importaint to contribute to the conversation, and don't let pointless words obstruct the importaint ones.

oh, and follow me, @mallyrenee

Why Hamlet and Rob Bell got on my nerves today.

So I saw Hamlet for the first time at the Shakespeare Fest and it was sincerely incredible. My props to the actors. Seriously.
And maybe it's just that i have a cold and when i do, my thoughts do weird things, but today i realized that the problem i have with Hamlet is the same problem I have with Rob Bell.
Or to be fair, it's the same problem I have with ALOT of Christians.
To be really fair, it's the same problem I have with alot of people. However, I hold Christians to a higher standard.
That being said, I was watching Hamlet today and the character of Hamlet was driving me crazy. The actor was great. Portrayed him perfectly. (yes, I have read the play.)
But HAMLET was annoying. I wanted him to be so... deep. So conflicted. I wanted him to be so, so...
not shallow. Hamlet said things for attention. He took cheap shots. He killed people, almost at random. I wanted him to be.. deep. soul deep. I wanted his every action to be meaningful. But when it comes down to it Hamlet is kinda shallow. Confused, angry, hurt, depressed, but ultimately shallow. He can't get beyond himself and his own view.
And when I read Velvet Elvis, and A Generous Orthadoxy, and even.. yes, Don Miller you're my hero but i have to say it... Blue like Jazz. There are these moments in all the books when i sit back and let the words soak in and say... wow. that was so meaningful. I mean really, life changing words. I even personally know people, more than a few, who've told me that thier lives have been changed by these books.
and then i read the next paragraph and think "Are you kidding me? You just bashed republicans. you just bashed a president, you just told me you don't agree with war. you just randomly inserted pipe references and beer references. for no other point than for me to think you're cool."
I know that everyone wants to be liked, including authors. But some of these things that are thrown into books make me feel as if thier just thrown in to get my attention. It's this inner shallowness that comes out, just like Hamlet. Just when i wanted the author to get beyond themselves.

You must not be a hypocrite if you smoke a pipe right? You're like, authentic dude. legit. I definitely want to hear what you have to say about God since you told me you are a democrat.

I guess there are people who really do think like the paragraph above. Just because they're out there doesn't mean you should cater to them. Even if it makes your book sell.
If these writers aren't inserting random democratic or beer references just for attention, somebody prove me wrong. As of now, i'm under-impressed.

The birth of cool; Don miller, Jon foreman and Darwin.

Don miller says cool people believe things. And it doesn't matter what it is. Don says girls fall for bad guys sometimes. bad guys don't need people to pat them on the back, they're doing something, moving. Even if all thier motion is depravity, even if it's destruction.

Jon foreman believes something. Darwin believes something. In fact, almost every truely influential person believes something. Heart and soul believes it.Ghandi believed something. Nelson Mandela did.

I've been thinking alot about what it really means to believe things. How would I act if I really believed there are children dying of starvation? Or really believed that as an American I am richer than 90% of the world?I have these brief moments, when I travel out of the country, when I believe those things. And I find myself giving everything away.And after two months back in the states, suddenly I find I don't believe it any more, because it doesn't effect the way I live.

On my paper about the emergent churchmy teacher asked me to consider what the Christian faith would look like if eveyone believed in much of emergent orthadoxy. And I began to realize it wouldn't be Christianity at all. (which made me also realize that most people I know who I riding the emegent wave don't really believe half the things they say or hear)Think about it: embracing doubt? Rejecting inerrancy? Always questioning? Always seeking and never finding?

This had a profound effect on my study of the creation/evolution argument.I watched expelled:no intelligence allowed, which discusses the possibility of the intelligent design theory.It poses the question: what does it really look like to believe darwinianism?And the answer was: Hitler. The most famous and adimant supporter of Darwin. Ever.
To believe you're evolved is to believe you're better than someone else.
A Jew, or an elderly person.
And hitler is responsible for the mass murder of over 6 million people.
It takes belief to acomplish something that big.
It takes impassioned, belief filled speeches to rally your nation behind you to attempt to wipe out a people group.It's horrible. It's awful. It's WRONG.

And there's the rub, that some beliefs are wrong.I'm not a scientist. Facts rarely persuade me the way emotions do. What can I say? It's the way I operate.I don't want to believe in Darwinian theories, because I've seen nothing good come from authentic belief in them. I don't believe that sincere opinions are all that sincere when they lead to destruction. All I see in Darwin is destruction and cold, animal instinct.

Ohh and to close with my chickflick quote...

"there is nothing greater than deciding in your life that things maybe really are black and white."

Maybe that's foolish, but it doesn't seem foolish to me.

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