Posted on 08/28/2017 4:01:36 PM PDT by EdnaMode
In the eleven years since Twitter revolutionised the way we use social media, it's been both used and abused by its one billion users.
It's helped mobilise revolutions such as the Arab Spring, and it can break huge news stories long before mainstream media are on the scene.
Then again, it's also routinely and inadvisably used by the 45th President of the United States , not to mention all the glorious celebrity Twitter spats.
But it's not just public figures who attract attention on the Twittersphere with their antics. Regular people regularly attract adversity too.
Take this lady for instance.
A young woman known as Saipanting is going viral after posting an alleged pregnancy announcement - and threatening to get abortion unless she got enough retweets.
It may seem like an awful attention seeking ploy, but there were those who believed her - and expressed their concern.
Then it got a whole lot murkier and confusing when the purported father of the baby got involved and expressed his shock at the pregnancy.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
I think someone’s overheated narcissism and imagination found a way to be provocative.
The fact that they chose to pretend to “ransom” a baby is certainly a statement about where some minds are, these days; but I don’t think ‘The World’ is going there.
The bad news is, if she doesn’t have the abortion she’ll put the baby on eBay after it’s born /s
eBay prohibits this but it’s not like some didn’t try...
Yeah, narcissism is out of control lately.
Yeah..."revolutions" that ushered in ISIS and the European migrant disaster
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