Get a room

Published May 20, 2009

We stopped going to the mall many years ago, mainly because we were sick of seeing kids suck each other’s face off. This is something we never got into. Public displays of affection are so… ick. It’s our considered opinion that such people have extremely low self-esteem, so they feel the need to prove to the world that someone likes them enough to swap spit. That, and they have no concept of privacy. Or propriety. Or personal space. Or how disgusting it is to see people pawing each other when you’re trying to eat a slice of pizza between hitting the sales at Macy’s and Dillard’s.

We’re not surprised to find declarations of deep affection and undying love on twitter. It’s a place to connect with others. If you can connect with anyone, why not connect with the one with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, or at least detention?

Meet @amazingphoebe and @sebby_peek. Not content to send text messages directly to each other via their mobile phones like every other teenager on the planet, they choose instead to send them to each other via twitter. Watch as they take that lovey-dovey, kissy-kissy stuff to the inevitable next stage of all teenage relationships: arguing, breaking up and making up, in public.

Because twitter is so new, we’re all discovering it together. We’re all deciding how we want to use it and what we want it to be. For these kids, twitter is the Food Court.