What's a picture worth again?

So, so adorable.

& forever.

I read a lot, and I can't say it's all very good or useful. When I read anything online, I especially cannot say it's good, useful, or true. For example, I read a very serious article claiming beauty trends next year would showcase the makeup depicted above and drawn-on unibrows for women. I've spared you all the photographic evidence of the latter. So, essentially, I read with caution because as fun as those painted lips look, I refuse to accept they're going to become a trend. I don't really think they're going to become a runway trend, and editorial trend, an anything trend. I think I will never see these lips again. But hey, I could be wrong.

In my readings I came upon an article with a title along the lines of "How Twitter is Making Us Better and Happier People". I had to read this because 1. I really don't understand the novelty of Twitter to the extent everyone else seems to & 2. I'm addicted to reading articles with outlandish claims. What can I say, I'm just a product of my generation.

I expected to find the contents as implausible as women willingly donning monobrows, but I was actually surprised. The basic point which I took from it was by reaching out on Twitter and other social networks, we're able to make light of situations which would normally stress us out. By me tweeting "Omfg. My family is getting so damn annoying. Cannot WAIT to move out!" and having people tweet back at me, suddenly an aggravating situation has become a topic of conversation. Or, you could say "Just got laid off, but fuck it, who wants to go celebrate not having to wake up early and make that awful commute anymore!!" And suddenly you have amazing plans for your evening, people who are also unemployed reaching out to you, and a newsfeed of things to occupy your now jobless self with. It's like suffering is the key to popularity because the more outrageous your life is going, the better tweets you'll have, and the more attention you'll get, and the happier you'll be! I'm not sure if I'd consider this the key to true joy in life, but it's something, no? Even the word tweet sounds cute!

Maybe it's merely justifying how much time we spend online, or how much of our lives we broadcast to the world... Typing away the events of our day and hitting enter so our "followers" can keep up with our every more. Maybe Twitter just wants us to believe we're being benefitted. Whatever it is, I never really thought of social networking sites as the secret to anyone's happiness.

I apologize for how sloppy these entries are sounding lately. I am just so tired, I feel old. Twitter should work on figuring out the secret to enternal youth next, like really.

On that note, I love the Uffie/Pharell video for ADD SUV. Check it out, one of her best songs in my opinion.

♥ Lini.