Think Twice Before You Tweet
Do you tweet? If yes, good. Skip the first paragraph. Read the rest. If you don’t tweet, very good. Read everything.
It’s all about twitter. The microblogging service, that has become a part and parcel of everyone’s life. And many a thanks to latest technology, you can tweet from your mobile phone. Twitter asks you to answer this question. “What are you doing?”. And it expects you to answer in less than 141 words. You might think why it became hip among the online community. It’s all because it became a new novel way to find and share web content and connect with friends. This video should make things clearer. (Or you can read one of my older posts.)
So you do tweet. Well, let me ask. What do you tweet? I know people who because have unlimited internet access, who are lazy to leave their computer desktop and who can tweet from their mobiles because they can. They tweet from the point they wake to till they fall into slumber.
Something like a live commentary probably. So if you think you fall in that category, a piece of advice. Please don’t tweet every minute and second of your life. Tweet reasonably. If you don’t then mind your trouble is around the corner.
What trouble? Don’t follow if you don’t like!
I like to follow my friends, and it isn’t their live commentary about their own life that bothers me. The thing that bothers is that, your everyday tweets are enough to reconstruct your life. So what? You become predictable. You may think it’s cool. But people are crossing the line and into your privacy.
You might argue. “No, I am careful, not to tweet everything”. Unfortunately, tweeting is addictive like texting. It happens automatically. Look at your tweets and think how useful it will be to a stranger.
Well friends. It’s time to think twice before you tweet.
P.S. As an example. There was news that a tweeter’s house was robbed when he and his family were out on a holiday. Here is the link to the article published at Mashable.
