Sometimes I anticipate readers of text I put on. There are times when I know where I am going, so I dress accordingly. There are times when I just put on a random shirt because it matches with what I am wearing. All of the text on my shirts mean something. Otherwise I would not have bought the shirt. I don't wear jewelry and I don't have any tattoos so the only text I wear are shirts. There are times where I don't wear something because I know that the people I am around won't like it or understand it.
When I use Twitter I do not anticipate a reader. I know that since I am not famous I cannot expect a large amount of followers. If someone is following me then they will be very disappointed because there are not many interesting things that I have to say. However it is still on the internet so I do censor myself sometimes.
The texts we wear or post on Twitter create meaning for ourselves. We wear text on our clothes because the text mean something to us. Even if we just throw on the shirt, the text still means something to us at sometime, even if it doesn't mean something at that time. The text that we wear can tell everyone who sees it something about us. The only case where text would not have meaning to us is if we received the clothing for free and had nothing else to wear. Then we would be lucky to have something to wear.
Thank you for this wonderful post. I agree with everything you say. Except for the thing about twitter cause I don't have a twitter. I don't even know if I have anything I want to question you about. "Even if we just throw on the shirt, the text still means something to us at sometime, even if it doesn't mean something at that time. The text that we wear can tell everyone who sees it something about us." I really liked what you said here because I find it so so true. Nobody buys a shirt with writing just because it has writing. You have to connect with the shirt.
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