Desicritics Category: Media: Citizen Media

Politics of Identity - A Discussion on the UID Project

Ruchi — Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:55:52 EST

By February 2011, India will become the first country in the world to issue its residents biometric-based numbers (UID) to establish identity. For this purpose, the Central Government has constituted the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) under the Planning Commission. The UID number is marketed as a fundamental enabler for efficient delivery of government services and inclusive development. As per the Authority, benefits of the UID number include elimination of leakages in welfare programs like PDS and NREGA, and facilitation of targeted education and health interventions for underprivileged children.

A less publicized purpose of the UID number is to improve national security. The impetus for UID came after the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. In January 2009, the Center issued notice to maritime states and two UTs to issue identity cards to all coastal residents. In an interview in the aftermath of the terror attacks, Chidambaram announced Government's decision to set up the UID authority. The UIDAI was established in February 2009, within three months of the attacks. By the Authority's own admission, “The UIDAI is only in the identity business. The responsibility of tracking beneficiaries and the governance of service delivery will continue to remain with the respective agencies”. Presumably “security” is not just a peripheral but the primary purpose of the project.

The UID project underscores the need for transparency of objectives of government programs and the importance of civil participation to ensure democratic end-use. Covert objectives are tantamount to subversion of democracy. Public opinion and approval of this undertaking are contingent on its stated altruistic goals; the Indian populace is unlikely to sanction a project for its own increased policing. Furthermore, since UID is a tool and not an outcome, it is susceptible to misuse by vested interests. Therefore, it is necessary to preemptively block dangerous outgrowths with legislative measures. While continuous engagement with the civil society is necessary to develop a comprehensive list, some obvious safeguards are outlined below.

First, non-enrollment should not be treated as criminal. There's a history of States using anti-terrorism/anti-insurgency pretexts to flout or curtail civil liberties; often political issues are treated like law and order situations. Enrollment is currently discretionary, likely 'cause of the impossibility of universal enrollment of a billion plus. However, there could conceivably be a push for universal enrollment in border, coastal and/or “red” states leading to potential harassment of undocumented individuals, esp. poor migrants.

Second, governments should not use UID numbers to trump individual choice. States should not be allowed to specifically target individuals from insurgent areas, inconvenient political groups etc. Moreover, state agencies should be barred from using UID numbers to withdraw essential services in any area to coerce relocation or discourage migration.

Third, social security services should not be withheld due to non-enrollment. The UID number is envisioned as a tool to monitor implementation of government schemes and programs. Therefore, it is likely that these schemes will mandate UID enrollment before providing services. In the case of social security services, the onus of enrollment should be on the organization, not the beneficiary. Also, the enrollment cost (estimated @ Rs. 20-25 per number) should not be taken from social security scheme outlays.

Fourth, private organizations should be debarred from pooling data to form comprehensive individual profiles to prevent invasion of privacy. The Authority aims to make the UID number the preferred mode of identification for both users and public/private organizations to drive revenue through its identity authentication service. Given an incontrovertible unique number for one individual across all of his/her life transactions creates the tremendous risk of this data being pooled to recreate the individual's life history

Fifth, expenditure incurred should be rationalized and transparent. The UID project comes with no expenditure caps; estimated enrollment costs alone are over Rs. 3000 crore. Unsurprisingly, there is deep interest from multinational technology and private finance organizations. Engagement with civil society will be vital to control ballooning costs and hijack of the project for private profit.

Coming back to the project's stated purpose of forming the basis for efficient delivery of government programs. It is worthwhile to debate both the relevance and effectiveness of the UID number for delivery of welfare schemes. The problem in targeted welfare schemes is of eligibility and not identity. The varying number of BPL families in the country is due to changing eligibility criteria such as income, calories, and other wellness indicators. Moreover, the largest leakages in welfare schemes are due to organized intermediary defalcation not fake beneficiaries. At best, the UID number will address the latter less significant problem.

Additionally, the design of the UID number reduces its effectiveness. The number will only store name, DoB, gender, parent's name, address (permanent and current), photograph and biometric info (ten fingerprints and iris scan) and will only verify identity of individual; defining and tracking beneficiaries, governance of service delivery will all need to be managed at the individual state government, program or scheme level and entail additional expenditure. This approach leaves a huge lacuna in execution and renders already nascent benefits more uncertain.

For instance, UID will alleviate only a small subset of leakages in NREGA and PDS, two of the biggest social security programs. Moreover, this increased efficacy will be contingent on beneficiary identification through biometric readers, which are susceptible to damage and sabotage. Even in the case of mobility, the benefit of UID will rest on administrative and systemic change by delivery organizations to allow transfer of benefits on proof of identity instead of requiring proof of eligibility again. E.g., ration cards for migrating family.

Last, there are considerable dangers to successful implementation. The UID project will require enormous technical capability and reliance on thousands of disparate intermediaries (“registrars”) for accurate and honest enrollment of each resident. In India, all large databases are riddled with errors; some voter lists alone are incomplete and erroneous by as much as 40 percent. Furthermore, the benefits of UID implementation are contingent on near universal enrollment, which is jeopardized by two risks. First, enrollment of individuals without documentary proof of identity rests on the “introducer” system, similar to opening an account at a bank. This strategy is both irrelevant and inadequate for migrant workers (especially those in the unorganized sector) and legions will remain unenrolled.

Second, in the absence of universal coverage (target enrollment at 600 million people or ~50% of population four years from launch), there will need to be alternatives to the UID to obtain service, verify identity etc. Since, enrollment in UID will not be mandatory, but “demand driven” to “access the benefits and services associated with it”, the benefit (one number to prove identity for life) will need UID to be accepted as preferred proof of identity by all significant private and public organizations. Given that UID verification will be chargeable (up to Rs. 10 per verification), private organizations may prefer alternative proof of identity thus further reducing incentive for voluntary enrollment.

The UID project is one of the most ambitious programs in India, without precedence or parallel anywhere in the world. Given its scale, centralization of power and potentially invasive use, there is need for transparency of its purpose with the civil society and a collaborative design process to ensure that democratic ideals of the country are upheld and derived benefits outweigh its costs.

Note: A few people are organizing for a concerted effort to mainstream discussion on UID – if you would like to join, please email me gupta (dot) ruchi (at) gmail (dot) com

Earthquake Strikes Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Killing Thousands

Ruvy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:18:37 EST

At about 17:00 on 12 January, an earthquake measuring 7.0 struck Port-au-Prince, leveling thousands of homes and causing the second floor of the Presidential Palace to collapse. According to reports coming from the country, the president of Haiti is still alive. Thousands of Haitian ex-pats are now biting their nails with worry over their relatives back home.

Based on reports on YouTube from Sky News, and on reports from Arutz Sheva in Israel, the United Nations headquarters has been destroyed in Port-au-Prince, and United Nations personnel can be seen on the streets there attempting to help a stricken and scared populace. Original reports from Arutz Sheva indicated that thousands of bodies had been seen on the streets of the Haitian capital.

Today, Wednesday, United Nations personnel are scheduled to estimate the damage this quake has caused and how to repair it. Israeli officials will be part of the effort, with the Israeli ambassador to the countries of the Dominican Republic and Haiti driving into the country from his headquarters in the Dominican Republic today.

Haiti is home to about 200 Indians, most of whom are policemen deputed as part of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). According to reports from the Press Trust of India, there has been no word on their status. If the UN headquarters has been destroyed, as reports indicate, this does not bode well.

Do your part for relief in this terrible disaster.

Shashi Tharoor's Unfettered Tweets

sufferingsocrates — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:14:44 EST

Shashi Tharoor is in news again for his tweeting antics. This time around he has tweeted on the strict VISA regulations following the Headley findings. Tharoor has aired his concerns on Twitter, and this has not gone down well with SM Krishna. He has been pulled up, but Tharoor has once again tweeted on how he missed the whole brouhaha. Tharoor had earlier tweeted into the headlines for his cattle class remarks following the Congress' much publicized austerity drive.

Is Tharoor trying to woo an online audience which is supportive of his tweets? Or is he being too naive and not being sensitive about the reason for the strict VISA regulations. Tharoor might be the tech savvy politician that India may have never had. But his online support will only remain online. Only his offline support can win him elections. So, even if media channels showcase his tweet supports on twitter, ground reality will be totally different. The online audience in India is sadly one which remains online and will seldom wield its voting powers.

Tharoor, with all due credit probably knows what he is doing. It could well be a gimmick to garner media attention and stay in the news. But what is disturbing about this instance of objections to VISA regulations is the matter of national security. Tharoor needn't be explained to, about the circumstances surrounding the need for the strict VISA norms. If Headley can sneak into India multiple times, and questionably as a US agent who went rogue, then India has to be more cautious on VISA restrictions. If U.S. can do racial profiling, then India too can impose stricter VISA regulations atleast. I don't see there being anything to be objected to.

The earlier instance was merely a remark on the austerity drive by Congress, calling politicians cattle class. It could have been a personal opinion and could have been pardoned. Is Tharoor so naive about Indian polity to believe that tweeting will win him support? Or is he being just a citizen and expressing his voice on an open platform? It certainly is arguable that, every politician is indeed a citizen too. So, why not air one's own opinions? The only caveat for a politician to take note of though is, that with great power comes great responsibility. Tharoor this time around has been anything but responsible.

Too Much Tweeting? Mum Tweeting Son's Death Causes Uproar

DesiGirl — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:23:24 EST

By day singing praises of social media and the latest wonder it is capable of and by night, decrying those who use the power of the same to reach out towards some support and solace. The media, the blogosphere, everyone is at it again. Shellie Ross, aka Twitterer Military_Mom, finds herself the latest victim of a modified witch hunt, wherein she is being pilloried for tweeting about her two year old son's fatal pool accident.

Shocked gasps must have resonated across cyberspace when, at 11.08 pm on Monday, Ross tweeted "Remembering my million dollar baby". So of course this makes her fair game as "which mother will calmly sit and type when such a calamity has befallen her?"

What does one do when a loved one passes away? Ring close friends and relatives and pass on the message, who in turn do the same. When my baby cousin passed away suddenly in 2008, my mother and I rang many relatives to pass on the message. In fact, one of the first things we did on receiving the news, apart from falling apart crying, was ring one of my grandma's closest friends, who lives next door, asking her to go and sit with my inconsolable grandma. Not once did we pause to think: "why are we sitting here with a phone in our hand when such a horrible fate has befallen us?" Because that is what you do - in times of grief, and of course joy, we want our loved ones around us, to comfort us and grieve with us. In order to do so, news must be passed.

In the modern world, where social media gains more and more importance by the day, what is so astounding that Ross tweeted the worst news a mother can hear? Didn't that tweet cause her friends to rally around and support her in her darkest hour? What is so shocking that despite losing her son, she could sit and type out 140 characters to spell out the disaster of her life? How different is it from picking up a phone, dialing numbers and verbalising the disaster?

Poor Shellie Ross - not only must she come to terms with the loss of her two-year-old, she must first defend herself against people who cannot believe she used the latest technology to let the world know of what is happening in her life. If you can use Twitter or Facebook to tomtom your latest achievement, post photos of your children and even moan your migraine, what is wrong from using it to gain some much-needed support?

Some people should get a life. And leave the grieving ones to their grief.

Haagen-Dazs Not Allowed in India

Deepti Lamba — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:24:24 EST

Indian netizens are in a tizzy although the rest of urban India has yet to catch up on the news. At Select City Walk in Saket, New Delhi, the new ice cream parlour selling Haagen-Dazs ice cream put up a sign: Preview Only For International Travellers.

The individual who took the photograph and holds an international passport was also not allowed in since he was an Indian. The franchise owner who happens to be an Indian took the sign down and claims the signboard never existed but the photograph proves otherwise.

The Twitter crowd has already taken the protest banner under the hashtag #HaagenDazsucks. The news is spreading like virtual wildfire to ensure the fiasco is known to as many people as possible. After #chetanblocks and the 'Cow' moment of Shashi Tharoor, it appears, Indian Tweetizens have come of age, as far as virtual protests and mobs are concerned.

An apology from Haagen Dazs is not enough. Pressure should be put on Select CityWalk not to renew the ice cream parlour's lease. What's more people can peacefully picket outside the CityWalk mall in protest.

This is obviously a sensitive issue for Indians and a direct reminder of the Raj period when Indians and dogs weren't allowed into clubs and other 'white' places.

Times of India writer Rajesh Kalra summed it up well under the headline, Sorry, Indians Not Allowed,

Then I felt, why not use the power of the social media? Next thing I knew was that I had put up a few pictures on facebook, added a caption and also sent out a tweet with a request it be retweeted. In a few hours, it had turned into a viral and I started getting messages from angry Indians all over. Why just Indians, even friends in international media wrote to say “this is the stupidest thing they have seen in a long time”.

I didn’t stop at that. I ended up calling a few MPs I knew I could speak to bluntly and told them about it, taunting them about it.

I don’t know what finally worked, but it seems word did get around to the outlet’s franchisee and they started claiming there never was any restriction on anybody entering the outlet.

While this may be considered a victory for people power, I am still unable to figure out who in his right senses would have advised the dessert company to do something so stupid. Was it a way to generate controversy for free publicity? Did they think it will work subliminally on Indians mind that now that it has been ‘certified’ by international travelers it would be good for them too?

Whatever it is, it is idiotic. I checked later and found that the franchisee is an Indian company based in Delhi and the man incharge is also an Indian.

I have often maintained that we ourselves are our biggest enemies. Our mentality is that of slaves and we think anything is good only if its approved by foreigners, or the “holders of international passport”.

Unfortunately what Rajesh said happens to be true for many urban Indians until they do go to the US or Europe and realize its much ado about nothing. The well-lit Pizza Huts with impeccable service in India are no more than little holes in the wall, one of the many Pizza joints in strip malls along with Domino's and Papa John's. But let's give them their due - they have gone somewhat native and have lots of items for the Indian palate and like McDonald's are quite successful in India.

Designer bags and shoes are a dime a dozen and the best time to buy stuff in US is during the Thanksgiving and After-Christmas sales, from stores like TJ Maxx, Marshalls and from regular outlet malls. Exposure to the West is important for it takes away the glamour some Indians suffer from.

The issue is not about boycotting foriegn brands people can buy whatever they like but racist brands deserve to be boycotted and thrown out of the country. There is no other way of looking at it. I am not indulging in some chest thumping patriotism but stating a fact.

Some things are unforgivable.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream
(Wallace Stevens, 1923)

(Image, Times of India)

To Tweet Or Not To Tweet - Word of the Year

sufferingsocrates — Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:47:06 EST

I was neglectful of twitter for a long time, but the tweeting bug finally bit me . Twitter has been the rage, especially in the past year. The fact that twitter is the top word used in English language in 2009 bears testimony to this. Quite an act, driven almost entirely by the social website's popularity. It took out words like H1N1 and stimulus in the top words list, published by Global Language Monitor.

Twitter is such a rage, that it is almost like the next rss out there. While twitter restricts the number of characters to 140, the impact of tweeting has been contagious. Any news channel or website, which does not have twitter ids would come as a shock for me in this day and age. Any mobile phone which comes out these days, brands itself with claims of having tweeting options in them.

It does seem to me though, that twitter is the sms version of the web. The crucial advantage twitter has, that it is ubiquitous due its presence in the internet. A sms though is confined to a circle. The only comparison which comes up and which ends abruptly is the character based entry. While a sms would be a quick message or response to a select group, tweets are more for a quick update or a news item on the web, for one and all to see. sms is at a personal level, while tweets are at a social level for anyone accustomed to internet.

The fact that Twitter has been most searched and so vastly used, especially in 2009 bears a strange coincidence with the recession. Is it that, people have been following up or socializing more aggressively to know of happenings about the impact of recession? It would be much easier to know ground level details of layoffs or bankruptcies in a 140 character format, than to wait and rely on data gathering engines to throw up data once in a quarter. Is that the reason for twitter to have picked up so tremendously? But it certainly looks likely, that socializing through twitter would help approach multiple avenues for the unfortunate ones who get laid off. So much so, that linkedin (business networking platform) now provides integration with twitter!

Earlier, Microsoft's Bing and Google, both strung partnerships with twitter for their search results. The objective was quite simple. To refine search results, to reflect the very latest happening around the world at any moment. The power of twitter for up to date news has not been lost on the biggies of internet search. That’s the power of twitter. Unadulterated ground level reality, for all to read.

But now that recession has pretty much ended, and economies across the globe are picking up, is there a need for twitter to worry? It may have ridden the recession wave to popularize itself, but what happens of it post recession? Data recently released by eMarketer, reveals a significant dip in the traffic to the tweeting website in the months from September to October. Atleast the traffic from U.S to twitter website seems to indicate so. Does that mean, people are losing interest in twitter? Is tweeting well past its fad?

It coincides unusually with a pickup in the economy. Is it that, when people were desperate to socialize and land a job, twitter was the in-thing, while after the economy picked up, no one had the time for tweeting? The research though does not mention traffic to twitter via third party applications or through mobile access. So, things could still be rosy for twitter.

Mumbai - One Year After

Aditya Kumar — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:25:34 EST

One year since the November 26, 2008 carnage that happened in Mumbai (26/11 as it has come to be known) and we have already found more important things to talk about.

We have, for example, witnessed a "furore in the House" (as promised) when one MLA chose to take his oath in another language but Marathi. We witnessed how a few elected to the office by the people can transform into goondas as and when convenient.

If only all the promises were kept and taken in the same vain by them who were making them, our country would have been a much better place to live in.

We have also witnessed a national hero proclaiming that He is proud to be a Maharashtrian but reinstated that Mumbai is of whole India. As always, he got his priorities right but then we also witnessed the grand old man, the self-proclaimed big daddy of the Marathi Manoos, telling the former that his comments had hurt, no prizes for guessing who, the Marathi Manoos.

Never has the "Proud to be an Indian" comment raised so much controversy.

Then, of course, we also know that calling the city "Bombay" (and not "Mumbai") can get you thrown out of the city limits.

This is November 26, a year after. Of prime importance, these things.

Blog the Bell: Breakthrough's Social Media Event

Sanjukta Basu — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:16:11 EST

One of our staff recently had a strange matrimonial alliance knocking her door. This man who was apparently interested in marrying her, had emailed her this long list of strange questions like "What subject you studied in school; What grades you got; What is your trekking experience."

All of us at Breakthrough office couldn't stop laughing at his amazing style of approach. When we asked her what did she do in response to the questionnaire, she said, "Maine to uska bell baja diya" (I rang him the bells)

It has been a year since its launch and 'Bell Bajao' (Ring the Bell) has already become an euphemism for 'taking action.' We have received hundreds of testimonies from people who have been inspired by the Bell Bajao TV spots and have taken action against domestic violence in some way or the other if not literally 'rang the bell.' (Bell Bajao TV spot featuring Campaign Ambassador Boman Irani)

In that spirit we realized we have this immense scope for netizen all over the country and world to take action through online media like blogs, facebook, twitter etc.

So from 'Ring the Bell' we are going 'Blog the Bell'

How do we design a strategy for effective actions online furthering the causes taken up by Bell Bajao as a campaign and Breakthrough as an organization?
How do we ensure that we include more people in this immense campaign?
How do we give online users more space on Bell Bajao blog.
How do we make Bell Bajao Blog as a bustling online platform, previously non-existent in India, for all communication around to violence against women in India and world?

To find answers to all such questions we decided to have a meeting with the social media thinkers and doers.

If you are someone who has some light to throw upon any of the questions above, or quite simply if you are a blogger / twitterer / facebooker etc we want to meet you. We hereby invite you to meet the Bell Bajao team in Breakthrough's Delhi office on 22nd Nov 09, 10 am to 2 pm.

We will have with us the creative minds behind the campaign, Zenobia Pithawala, Group Creative head, Ogilvy & Mather, Breakthrough Founder Mallika Dutt and Communications Ditector, Sonali Khan.

The idea is to connect and involve with more and more people in this immense campaign against one of the greatest misery that affects the whole woman kind.

Similar social media meetings are planned to be held in cities like Chennai, Mumbai and Bangalore but the pilot one is being held at Delhi.To recap here are the details:

Date: 22nd November, 2009

Time: 10am-2pm.

Venue: Breakthrough

E1/A | Kailash Colony

New Delhi | 110048

Its a free event, but we need a bit of registration details since we have to do the seating arrangements in our office. Please register on the Registration page.

A detailed schedule of the half day event is available on the Schedule page.

For contacts and other details visit our blog.

We look forward to see a lot of you at the meeting.

(Sanjukta on behalf of Breakthrough)

Facebook Messages That Annoy Me

Saurin Parikh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:28:23 EST

Nothing annoys me more than these Facebook messages:

Still sleepy… yawwwwwwwn…

Variants: Had a good night’s sleep, Didn’t have a good night’s sleep, Is it morning already?

Ok, so you woke up on the wrong side of the bed, or for a change, maybe even on the right side of the bed. But why tell me about that? Am I supposed to feel sorry for you? Why should anyone sympathize with you when you were up all night surfing porn or worrying over why your latest crush didn’t answer your call? Newsflash: no one cares how your night went, unless they spent it with you.

I hate Mondays!

Variants: I wish it was Saturday, Can I have 2 Sundays please?, Why is the weekend only 2 days? Its 1:34 am and I’m still at work, Sunday at work

I don’t understand why people don’t like Mondays. Probably because I’m not stuck in a job I hate doing. Probably because I don’t have to drag myself out of bed dreading the drudgery of the next 10 hours. And probably because I don’t have to lick posteriors to make a living. Another newsflash: hating Mondays ain't cool, doing some work that you really like is.

Sunday is Funday

Oh really? Then why are you spending it on FB? Don’t you have anything better to do, loser? I pity those whose idea of fun is FB.

I feel like…

Variants: I want to…, I wish I could…, Next month, I’m going to…

Wow, a guessing game! All your friends are so lucky that you’re giving them the golden opportunity of completing your sentences. Why don’t you give them the chance to help you finish pooping as well? Actually, the biggest losers are not those who post such messages, they are those who add comments to such messages.

Quotes by famous people

Reality check: everyone in your friends list knows that you’re too dumb to think of something so intelligent. Everyone knows that someone more famous and definitely wiser said whatever you’ve posted. So stop making a bigger fool out of yourself and give credit to the original quoter. Here’s one quote from me that you should post, with due credit to me of course – ‘The world is made up of two kinds of people: those who agree with me, and those who are wrong.’

Philosophical/Motivational messages

Examples: (1) The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

(2) The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more........!!

Groan, you make me want to puke. Here’s some philosophy from me that you should always keep in mind if you really want to come up in life – ‘The sun will never shine up your ass and that’s where your brains are.’

Go figure.

Don’t feel like doing anything…

Variants: Don’t wanna study, Don’t wanna work

Doesn’t posting messages, taking quizzes and playing games on FB qualify as doing something? And as far as those who don’t want to study or work, try telling that to your mom or your boss if you really have the balls.

Watching Balika Vadhu on Colors

Variants: Walking in my garden, Sitting on the pot, @ gym, Getting bored, Walking in my garden

Did anyone ever ask you for a minute-by-minute update of your daily routine? It’s wonderful that you have phone that allows you to access the internet, but so does everyone else. It’s 2009, not 1999. And why can’t you just enjoy doing whatever you’re doing? Are you so insecure that you can’t resist the urge to ensure that everyone knows what you’re doing? And frankly, watching mundane shows on TV isn’t something you should be boasting about, it’s something you should be ashamed of.

Off to Honolulu…

Variants: Just back from Goa…, In China…

So you’re going on a vacation. You’ve worked really hard all year, your leaves were cancelled three times before, but now finally you’re off for the much-needed holiday and hence, it’s time to make everyone jealous. Right? You’re wrong, as always. No one will be jealous, only happier because you won’t be spamming the FB homepage with your useless messages.

By the way, for the record, the only good FB messages are links to blog posts.

Twitter and Relationships

The Shiva — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:23:03 EDT

An imaginary twitter feed and some people at the end of it....and yes for the uninitiated - @ID is usually a reply to the person with the ID

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Cosmicnonsense: I dont have da hat I wore yday, dunno where i left it.

Prudentchild: She says I have no sense of humor, what a shame, I thought i was funny.

Idioticmaze: @Cosmicnonsense da hat is in da house

Sportsbugger: Saints rule!! Yippee

Anywherebuthere: I wore too much cologne, I'm scaring people off now

Indianrider: Maybe it wasnt meant to be, is there such a thing as fate?

Weirdnwired: @Prudentchild I thought you were funny..LOL

NiceHair: @Sportsbugger How could you? You told me you wouldnt bring religion into our relationship.

Cosmicnonsense: @Idioticmaze You trying to be funny, I should have never taken you home. Now gimme my hat

Prudentchild: @Weirdnwired U heard my jokes? and thought they were funny? I'm dating the wrong chick.

kwalityicecream: @Indianrider yes fate is awesome, I saw mine change in a minute, u should give http://enlargeurepenis.com a shot

Nightnday: @Anywherebuthere Its not the cologne. Its just you.

Idioticmaze: @Cosmicnonsense you get ure hat when u tell the world what a real a$$hole u really r...tweet that

Niceguy: Hello everyone, I am a nice guy, is there a place for me here?

Sportsbugger: @Nicehair da Saints did win today!...which religion are you talking about? NFL? LOL

Anywherebuthere: @Nightnday Ya ure the one to talk, btw ure not even in the room, idiot

Indianrider: @kwalityicecream is that you Charlie?

Weirdnwired: @Prudentchild I'm a guy here, sorry

Niceguy: Anyone help a nice guy in relationship advice please?

Cosmicnonsense: @Idioticmaze keep the hat u dumb whatever, lets see u make a buck on that

Prudentchild: @Weirdnwired Ah, that explains why u get my jokes. u watching da game now?

kwalityicecream: @Indianrider who's charlie, this is cheryl

Nightnday: @Anywherebuthere I dont need to be there..LOLOLOL

Niceguy: What are these people talking about, how come noone helps niceguys in all this

Cosmicnonsense: @Niceguy dude prob ure in the wrong place, noones nice, change ure nick to Blingbling, ull get ure response...:)

Niceguy: @Cosmicnonsense that makes sense. I will do that, danke

Idioticmaze: @Cosmicnonsense I have ure wallet too, moron

Nicehair: @Sportsbugger Dont make fun of my religion, btw the NFL is just stupid and degrading to women

Cosmicnonsense: @Idioticmaze now thats a new low even for u, but as it happens to be, i usually have nothing in my wallet..:P

Blingbling: wassup y'all

girl1girl2: @Blingbling hey there

Blingbling: @Cosmicnonsense it works THANKS!!

Cosmicnonsense: @Blingbling NP...but remember..never hand over the wallet or ure hat

Idioticmaze: @Blingbling and if u do, pls keep ACTUAL money in it

Blingbling: @Idioticmaze uh...I'll try..btw ...How U doin?

Cosmicnonsense: @Blingbling dude, she aint worth the trouble

Idioticmaze: @Blingbling I'm doin fine..:)