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pigtailsandcombatboots: This is one of my favorite quotes from any movie. (from Pierrot le Fou, 1965. Jean-Luc Godard) I get irritated because I see it posted on Twitter a lot as an original thought, rather than as a movie quote (along with MANY others.) That’s one of my biggest issues with Twitter. It’s so easy for anyone to grab a movie quote or a line from a poem, or anywhere really, and post it as their own. When it’s just a line it doesn’t stimulate the memory as much as a larger portion of the work it’s taken from. Plus, being that this is a vintage foreign movie, not many people would recognize it. It’s frustrating when I post original thoughts/aphorisms/etc. and then other people are praised or perceived as good writers/deep thinkers because they post unoriginal material as their own. I don’t care about the recognition, but it’s another example about why I hesitate to trust people on the internet, especially when your perception of someone is based on 140-character increments. It’s easy to make other people see you as you want if you manipulate the mask that the indirect connection of the internet can create. Without direct interaction, you judge someone based on these 140-character quips, which may in fact be someone else’s ideas. I’m big on not misrepresenting myself. It feels so unnatural, plus the people that do it, are in trouble if they meet someone in real life and can’t live up their “borrowed” internet persona. Plus I’d rather be confident that people like and respect me for “me”, not for a persona I’m trying to project that is not at all “me”. If a quote sprouts a thought in your mind that leads to a different, but related thought, that’s cool. Word-for-word copying erases all respect that I may have for the person posting it. (I posted this because I just saw it posted on Twitter for like the umpteenth time. I don’t call people out on stuff like this because it’s only Twitter and I avoid drama like the plague. I can’t blow off the effect it has on my perception of someone though.) Arrrrrggghhh! ;)

pigtailsandcombatboots:

This is one of my favorite quotes from any movie. (from Pierrot le Fou, 1965. Jean-Luc Godard)

I get irritated because I see it posted on Twitter a lot as an original thought, rather than as a movie quote (along with MANY others.) That’s one of my biggest issues with Twitter. It’s so easy for anyone to grab a movie quote or a line from a poem, or anywhere really, and post it as their own. When it’s just a line it doesn’t stimulate the memory as much as a larger portion of the work it’s taken from. Plus, being that this is a vintage foreign movie, not many people would recognize it. It’s frustrating when I post original thoughts/aphorisms/etc. and then other people are praised or perceived as good writers/deep thinkers because they post unoriginal material as their own. I don’t care about the recognition, but it’s another example about why I hesitate to trust people on the internet, especially when your perception of someone is based on 140-character increments. It’s easy to make other people see you as you want if you manipulate the mask that the indirect connection of the internet can create. Without direct interaction, you judge someone based on these 140-character quips, which may in fact be someone else’s ideas.

I’m big on not misrepresenting myself. It feels so unnatural, plus the people that do it, are in trouble if they meet someone in real life and can’t live up their “borrowed” internet persona. Plus I’d rather be confident that people like and respect me for “me”, not for a persona I’m trying to project that is not at all “me”.

If a quote sprouts a thought in your mind that leads to a different, but related thought, that’s cool. Word-for-word copying erases all respect that I may have for the person posting it.

(I posted this because I just saw it posted on Twitter for like the umpteenth time. I don’t call people out on stuff like this because it’s only Twitter and I avoid drama like the plague. I can’t blow off the effect it has on my perception of someone though.)

Arrrrrggghhh! ;)

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