on days like today I hate it with every fibre of my being.
I woke this morning, with the rest of the UK, to the sad news that Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, had died from cancer. Steve had been diagnosed in 2004 with pancreatic cancer, from that point he was on a downward spiral, survival rates for this type of cancer are very low, in fact he was lucky to last as long as he did. If you get diagnosed with pancreatic cancer you normally shuffle off your mortal coils in 6 to 12 months.
So why do I hate Twitter so much today? I hate it because of the herd mentality of people. My timeline was full of people tweeting & retweeting banal tweets usually with #ripSteve in there somewhere. I could live with that but then I started to see tweets like
RT if you have an #apple product #iPhone #iPad #iPod #iMac #iSad #SteveJobs #RIPSteveJobs #thankyousteve
I mean seriously WTF?
And
I’ve been using Apple products to run my business pay my bills and for 15 years #thankyousteve
No numb nuts, you have been using Apple products to make money to buy more Apple products for 15 years.
On the 18th October am I going to see a load of tweets saying
Thank you Thomas, you changed the lives of people around the world for the better #edison
No, I very much doubt it. Steve Jobs founded a company that made many great things but he could not have done any of that without Thomas Edison could he?
The one thing that is missing from the tweets I have used as examples?
#cancer
Cancer is the important thing in all of this, not your iPhone, iPad or your iWhatfuckingever it’s CANCER you morons. Endlessly retweeting sycophantic crap about how Steve Jobs & Apple changed your life is not doing anything other than proving you are a moron, a brain dead bovine herd following moron.
Do something real and every time you feel the need to retweet how much Steve Jobs changed your life put your hand in your pocket and give a £$€1 to a cancer charity and do something real to help change someone else’s life.
Cancer effects almost everyone, I have two very good friends who are dealing with it right now, either by having it themselves or a close family member having it. I have another good friend who has had cancer, had one of his nuts chopped off and looks like he is ok.
Don’t be a herd following moron, be an individual and do something real that makes a difference give a £$€1 or whatever you can afford to a cancer charity.
Just so you know 21 people a day in the UK die from Pancreatic Cancer.
The irony of this rant is, I wrote it on my iMac and 99% of the people who read it will find out about it via Twitter.
Apple fan boys & girls don’t bother tweeting me, I’m not there today because of you.
Do feel free to leave hate messages below along with a scan of your receipt for your donation to a cancer charity.
Posted from Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom.
Great post Mike. Agree!
James(Quote)
James,
Cheers James.
Sad he died so young but the outpouring of ‘grief’ is a bit of a joke.
Michael Rawlins(Quote)
You really are a nasty piece of work. How can you be so nasty about someone dying from cancer?
I hope you get cancer and die you moron
#ripsteve
#ripstevejobs
#apple
#thankyousteve
#ripsteve
#ripstevejobs
#apple
#thankyousteve
#iSad
RIP Steve Jobs(Quote)
Thanks for calling by and those kind words.
Are you the ‘real’ Steve Jobs communicating from ‘the other side’ maybe sitting on your iCoud?
For the record, I wasn’t nasty about anyone dying from cancer, I was nasty about morons like you, go back and read it again, try breaking it down in to chunks of say 140 characters, as it seems that is all you are capable of reading in one sitting.
You forgot to post your receipt for your donation to a cancer charity.
Michael Rawlins(Quote)
fuck you ass hole!!!!!!!!!!
#ripsteve
#ripstevejobs
#apple
#thankyousteve
#ripsteve
#ripstevejobs
#iSad
RIP Steve Jobs(Quote)
Why thank you…
Since your last post, around 3 people in the UK have died from the same cancer that killed Steve Jobs, what are you saying about them? Where is your public outpouring of grief for them?
You are just following the herd, keep on going, thank you do call again…….
Michael Rawlins(Quote)
Steve Jobs was a visionary who changed the lives of everyone in the world he deserves some respect man.
Apple Fan(Quote)
Steve Jobs was a visionary
Yes I’ll give you that, he was visionary.
who changed the lives of everyone in the world
Did he? How? He changed the lives of a number of people I grant you that, but everyone in the world is a pretty tall order.
he deserves some respect man
I didn’t disrespect him, I didn’t even disrespect the herds of Apple fan boys and girls, I just said they were missing the point.
If the biggest thing you have to worry about is the fact that guy who founded a company has died and not the cancer itself then I think you need to go and re-evaluate your life, seriously..
Michael Rawlins(Quote)
FUCK YOU!
FUCK YOU!
[edited]
#ripsteve
#ripstevejobs
#apple
#thankyousteve
#iSad
RIP Steve Jobs(Quote)
Cool I’ve not seen that since the days of the AOL chatrooms.
All I can say is you are just reenforcing the reason why I wrote the post in the first place. Normally I’d just spam the comments but you are a literary genus and you work needs to be shown publicly.
Michael Rawlins(Quote)
FUCK YOU I HOPE YOU GET CANCER OF THE ASS AND DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sTEVE jOBS is worth 1000 of you!
FUCK YOU!
[edited]
#ripsteve
#ripstevejobs
#apple
#thankyousteve
#iSad
RIP Steve Jobs(Quote)
I would say that the late Steve Jobs was worth considerably more than 1000 of me..
You really have got the wrong end of the stick so I’m going to do you a favour and stop releasing your comments and making you look any more stupid than you already have done.
Michael Rawlins(Quote)