Tweeting not always good

I have written about the lack of civility and the social networks a bit before but I feel the need to add a little more  to it.

As I have said on here I am a huge Big Brother fan. For those that don't know about it; it is a reality/game show.  This year fourteen people entered the BB house; where the object is basically to evict one house guest per week until two remain. And then a jury of house guests who were evicted vote on who won the season. And the prize for  the winner is $500k.

The key thing that attracted me to this show was the fact that the house guests are on camera for the whole almost 3 months of the show. No, there are no camera's in the bathroom.

One of the good things for me is that the last few years I have been able to buy the online feeds and have spent many nights hanging out (so to speak) with the house guests.

The only rule really seems to be anything goes except physical confrontations.There are contests to determine the Head of House, whose main purpose is to pick two nominees to face eviction. Those facing eviction, the HoH and other house guests play for the Power of Veto, which gives the winner the right to take one of the nominees for eviction away from facing eviction and then the HOH nominates someone else in their place.

I think I have given a decent overview of BB.

Now, imagine being in that situation and knowing that other house guests are allowed to lie, form alliances and generally speaking do whatever they can to get someone else nominated while trying not to get nominated themselves.

It can get pretty stressful and heated in the house. And believe me things can and do get ugly in there; that is the nature of the game.

I have no problem, generally speaking with what goes on in the house. Like the real world there are house guest who I have liked a lot and house guests who I couldn't stand through the four seasons I have been watching it.  But I always try to keep in mind that people act differently in stressful situations and some of their behavior is going to be offensive to some.

I like it because of the company I get to "have" for  three months but I also like it because I have always enjoyed watching people. I never like going on rides in the amusement parks; I preferred the people watching much more.

But I have noticed that mainly on Twitter, people tend to forget that the house guests are probably a lot different in the BB house then they are in the real world.

On Twitter I have read some of the most nasty, mean spirited things I have ever heard or read anyone say about someone else.

This season every one of the house guests have been targeted but the one who seems to get the most offensive treatment is Kalia, a African American woman who I think is in her late twenties and looks a heck of a lot like Ophra.  Kalia looks like she is, a slightly bigger woman but attractive. She unfortunately has been called every name in the book on Twitter.

And that is a real shame.I personally am concerned with how Kalia's family is taking the negative reactions. It is not fair to them.  None of the people tweeting these nasty things is perfect and I think that if we could put camera's on them 24 hours a day, seven days a week we would see a lot of negative stuff from those people.

I know I definitely would not want to be on camera all the time, I know I do some  unwatchable  stuff.

Whatever happened to if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all?