Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25389512-20140910005311

Lloyd_Freeman113 is following you!



I never understood the obsession with social media.



I mean really, why do people like posting random photos, or writing random tweets. I don't see the attraction of sending out whatever weird thing's in my mind and having someone liking the random thing I came up with.







My name is Mike and I'm 16 years old. I'm not exactly the most liked person in the world. Some find my personality rather sarcastic and cynical. My biggest problem is my negative outlook on everything. I don't try to be negative, but I always seem to come across that way now matter how optimistic I try to sound.







One day my friend (who I'll call Matt for security reasons) talked me into getting a twitter. Now being the negative asshole I am I listed all the reasons I don't want one: social media is stupid, I don't care what someone else is thinking, it's all just a way for teenagers to delude themselves into thinking people care about what they think because they like some tweet you post. Basically unintentionally sounding like a dick. I was finally convinced, and I created one.







<p class="MsoNormal">I rarely ever posted anything, and when I did it was usually about something funny I saw. I only had 23 followers, mostly from people I barely know.

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<p class="MsoNormal">One night I posted about a funny scene from South Park, and I received a favorite from someone I never met. The man went by the username Lloyd_Freeman113. I also noticed he started following me.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Curious I messaged him.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Me: "Hey do I know u?"

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<p class="MsoNormal">I waited. 2 minutes later he finally responded

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<p class="MsoNormal">Lloyd: "Nope"

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<p class="MsoNormal">Creeped out I replied.

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<p class="MsoNormal">"Why were you checking out my twitter then?"

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<p class="MsoNormal">2 minute later.

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<p class="MsoNormal">"I don't remember."

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<p class="MsoNormal">At this point I was getting annoyed.

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<p class="MsoNormal">"Screw u asshole."

<p class="MsoNormal">He responded

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<p class="MsoNormal">At that point I stopped messaging him.

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<p class="MsoNormal">A couple days later I posted about some video I saw on YouTube. I can't recall what it was about, but as soon as I posted it(and I mean immediately as I posted it), it said that Loyd_Freeman113 favorited it.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Now I found this really creepy, so I messaged him again.

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<p class="MsoNormal">"WHO ARE U!?"

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<p class="MsoNormal">I got no response and I blocked him.

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<p class="MsoNormal">At 2:30 a.m., I received a tweet from who else Loyd_Freeman113. Now I found this weird, because I thought you could only message people who you were following, and I had blocked him. He wrote.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Lloyd: "A friend."

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<p class="MsoNormal">Me: "I don't now you and how are you messaging me."

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<p class="MsoNormal">Lloyd: "I'm following you."

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<p class="MsoNormal">I went to check and somehow he had started following me.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Me: "That's impossible I blocked you."

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<p class="MsoNormal">Lloyd: "Why would you do that?"

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<p class="MsoNormal">Me: "Because you're a freaking stalker."

<p class="MsoNormal">Lloyd: "That's not true I just like you."

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<p class="MsoNormal">I got so scared I shut the computer off and went upstairs.

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<p class="MsoNormal">A month went by and I had forgotten about Lloyd, so I tweeted something about going to a concert. As soon as I hit post of course I saw Loyd_Freeman113 favorite this.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Me: "Look I'm going to call the cops if you don't cut this out."

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<p class="MsoNormal">Lloyd: "I thought we were friends."

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<p class="MsoNormal">Me: "I DON'T KNOW U!!!!"

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<p class="MsoNormal">Lloyd: "I'm your one and only follower."

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<p class="MsoNormal">Confused and went to check. When I opened my home page I saw that no one was following me. I went to call my friend and a told me he never un-followed me and that it still said he was following me. I ran back to my computer.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Me: "That's it I'm telling my parents."

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<p class="MsoNormal">After I told my parents they made me delete my twitter account and I was happy it was over.

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<p class="MsoNormal">At about 5:00 a.m., I received a notification from my phone.

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<p class="MsoNormal">I was half asleep but I got up to check. My phone said...

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<p class="MsoNormal">" LLYOD_FREEMAN113 IS FOLLOWING YOU!!!!!!!"

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<p class="MsoNormal">Scared shitless I ran down stairs and told my parents who called the police.

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<p class="MsoNormal">They came to my house, and I told them the whole story. They took my phone so they could try to track Lloyd, they told me not to go to school, and they told me they would keep a policemen outside my house to keep watch.

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<p class="MsoNormal">A week later the police called my house. They told me they couldn't discover were Lloyd lived, and that the Twitter name Lloyd_Freeman113 was never registered on Twitter.

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<p class="MsoNormal">A week of no sleep later, and I was still scared. So many questions were going through my mind. Who was Lloyd, why was he stalking me, how did he manage to elude the police, how could he message me when I deleted my account. It didn't make any sense, none of it did.

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<p class="MsoNormal">That night I was up late on my computer trying to play videogames, to try to calm me down when my computer screen turned off.

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<p class="MsoNormal">When it reopened, It took me to my old Twitter profile. I sat in silence for 5 minutes, paralyzed by fear, when I received this message...

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<p class="MsoNormal">"Lloyd_Freeman113 is following you."

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<p class="MsoNormal"> " ''' Lloyd_Freeman113 is following you" '''

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<p class="MsoNormal">           " ''' Lloyd_Freeman113 WILL NEVER STOP  FOLLOWING YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" '''

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