Time Doesn’t Remember Cowards
Earlier today, I was following an exchange between two people on Twitter. One person was giving something away, and the other joked that he was giving something away too. Their comments afterward were subtle and to the point. It wasn’t a memorable conversation, nor did it involve anything of importance. The conversation ended as quickly as it began.
A bit later, one of them mentioned something and I clicked over to view their page in Twitter. While I was there, I noticed something wasn’t right. One of the messages sent in the earlier conversation was no longer appearing on their page. In fact, it was gone completely. Thank goodness for Stuffr, I was able to scroll back and make sure it had been there, and grab a screen shot. Normally, that’s not really a big deal. People delete their messages on Twitter from time to time, that is their perogative. But why delete that one comment?
The deleted message was in context to the conversation that took place. but because of it’s deletion, the Twitter timeline has been altered in a way to make it look like there was no message exchange at all from the person involved. History (in print) has been changed. In fact, it makes it look like no conversation even took place. Why would someone feel the need to do that?
There were no spelling or grammatical errors in the message. There was really no reason to delete the message, unless of course there was some underlying desire to make the other person look bad (and make it look like you did nothing to provoke the response from the second person).
In the interest of disclosure, one person involved is a very good friend, the other was an acquaintance I have never had an issue with, except the fact that he lied to me recently. Neither of these people are “innocent” by any means, but I hardly think it’s necessary to try to change history to make yourself look better.
In this day of social media, you have to understand that some things you say cannot (and should not) be deleted. If you aren’t honest (with yourself) enough to stand behind your own words, what kind of person are you? There’s a word for people that do that sort of thing, but lucky for us, time remembers none of them.
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