Twitter: Social, Professional But Is It Too Personal?

February 27th, 2009 | by Le Administrator |

Twitter LogoI’ve been hanging out in the Twitter realm for a while, and enjoying it most of the time. Having real-time updates about the activities of the geeky people with whom I share similar interests is awesome. I’m also using a few tools to follow certain topics I’m keen on as well. Keeps me up-to-date with what’s happening about the stuff. It’s not obtrusive, it’s simple, it’s short.

Currently, I have a reasonable number of people that I follow and pretty much same number of followers. I know most of them via the Open Source projects that I am involved with, some close friends, some very talented folks that I would like to follow their updates, some project tweets such as Google AppEngine, YUI etc.,  I usually use TwitterFox when I’m around a computer (that’s like 90% of the time), and Twidroid on my G1, and sometimes the Twitter.com itself. So far so good!

I learn significantly from many of the people that I follow, I sometimes laugh at their interesting moments, and share a 140 character virtual memory with them. Nothing wrong with that.

However, I don’t necessarily need to know about

  • your personal life in every detail.
  • your shower schedule
  • the size of your last poop (if it’s noteworthy post it up on ratemyshite.com)
  • if you ate dinner or what you ate every night.
  • how much gas left in your tank
  • your political views ten times a day
  • your personal agenda via the institutional Twitter account you are controlling
  • ...(i’ll keep on adding to this list)

In my opinion,  if a person has an excessive tweeting pattern around the subjects I wrote about, he/she becomes a “twammer“. (spammer!)

When someone starts clogging my feed with sleep and shower schedules,  it gets unnecessarily personal and it is too much information.  I must admit, it bothers me. That’s a bit more time than I would actually like to spend on Twitter.

Don’t mean to be mean. Just putting it out the way it is. I’m pretty sure that many would agree with most of the things I put above.

Now, go and tweet about this post :)

  1. 2 Responses to “Twitter: Social, Professional But Is It Too Personal?”

  2. By Artunc on Feb 27, 2009 | Reply

    Somebody needs a drink, and a hug :) )

  3. By Code on Mar 7, 2009 | Reply

    Twitterhea: The Unstoppable Urge To Tweet http://tinyurl.com/afkynt

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