Most teenagers today have some form of social media. One of them may be Twitter. Twitter can be extremely fun and entertaining and even an escape for some people. However, there are some people that simply aren’t mature enough to keep it fun.

Once Twitter (or any social media) becomes nasty and spiteful, it becomes insanely so. People see one tweet with no boundaries and assume that it’s okay for them to act that way as well.

“Subtweeting” is what people use to describe the occurence when someone tweets about someone intentionally knowing that that person will eventually see it and get upset. As teenagers, we think the world is out to get us and as soon as someone does us wrong it’s on to social media we go to go complain about it to the rest of the world.

I don’t want to be hypocritical so I do want to state that I have actually done this multiple times myself. I am now, however, learning new and healthier coping skills that will prevent me from doing that or anything else irrational.

Not that it makes it any better or any less immature, but the things I would subtweet about were stupid, pointless, petty drama. Some people, on the other hand, take it to the next level and actually attack people’s character and (even worse) their biggest insecurities.

It boggles my mind that people would purposely want to hurt someone like that. Especially on a public social media site where everyone can see it/talk about it. Quite frankly, it’s embarrassing and childish and it needs to stop.

If you have an issue with someone, discuss it with them. Don’t make everyone else listen to it. And, most importantly, never hurt anyone on purpose no matter what they did to you.