In public, my own phone makes me nervous sometimes. Not because I’m still the archaic negro with the blackberry in a world modernized with iPhoners droning along their merry apple way, It’s just that I get nervous when going on my twitter app while I’m public. 

Specifically while riding the bus. When I check my timeline, some folks retweet intriguing tweets from folks that I don’t follow. Obviously, curiosity is going to encourage you to look at the particular person profile and possibly scroll through their timeline. The reason my nerves kick in is because I always feel the motherfucker sitting next to me is looking at my phone as a temporarily cyber stalk and they end up having some one degree of separation of that said person or happens to be that actual person. I’m cool with awkward moments but that would be a little too much for me in that instance:

“Yo… umm… you like what you looking at? That’s my baby mama… You trying take my girl from me? You trying to take my kids too?”

Aight. Maybe it won’t go down like that. Yet… that shit still makes me nervous. So, I don’t even use twitter when I am on the bus any more. 

Peace. 

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