To Tweet or Not to Tweet?: Mr. Robot Reflection

That is the question.

As I sat in a screening of the first two episodes of Mr. Robot, I was expected to "live" tweet this event that wasn't actually happening live. As someone who went on a Twitter hiatus from January to September, I'm a little apprehensive about tweeting my own thoughts in real time -- let alone a commentary on an event that isn't really an event.

How could I possibly load my Twitter account with irrelevant tweets only composed for the purposes of a class? What would my 272 followers think?

And then I thought, why do I care?

The thought of putting something out onto the internet in front of almost 300 people (who almost definitely do not care what I have to say) went against every fibre of my Gen X/Millennial (?) being. But why? I mean, let's be frank here. It literally doesn't matter. Aside from potential employers checking for party pics or nudes, I can guarantee you that maybe only a solid 3% of my followers actually read what I tweet.

However, in the pilot episode of the series Mr. Robot, we see Elliott delve into the private lives of nearly everyone he meets and expose them for their indiscretions. So maybe someone cares. There are people out there like Elliott who want to (and are able to) find out everything about me that has ever been on the internet. Ever. And I'd be lying to you if I said that I didn't think that was SO COOL.

So is it the perfection driven, wanna-be socialite or the firewall hacking extraordinaire in me that didn't want to tweet last night? Who's to say? Though I can tell you that I did say somethings. I tweeted -- twice. I know! A whole two tweets (which can be seen below). While I mustered up the courage and general no shits given-ness to tweet, I still attempted to make them relevant and relatable so that (hopefully) my followers wouldn't hate me when it was over.