social behaviour in a digital world
People, use your heads when deciding what to ‘twitter’ about. At a basic level, I can certainly see the value of staying connected with your friends. However, when you start plugging twitter into social networks like Facebook, it’s a recipe for annoyance, plain and simple. Why do I care what you think as you watch some TV show? I don’t.
Personally, I really don’t want to let others know the minutiae of my day and I have absolutely zero interest in knowing what a friend of mine is thinking as they ponder life’s mysteries while sipping a Starbuck’s latte at their laptop keyboard. If I find my online friend’s thoughts of interest, I can easily stay in touch via many other means. Let’s face it, only the early adopters already extensively using social media will be twittering anyway.
I’ve really relegated Facebook to being a way to send a note to friends and acquaintances and that’s pretty much it. I find the information stream coming from Facebook friend updates to be far more than I need, anyway, and I certainly couldn’t imagine having any use for even more of that crap via services like FriendFeed, so why would I want to follow anyone on Twitter? Sorry, the details of your day, or mine for that matter, are simply not that interesting or important. And let’s face it, we all know Facebook friends are not always real friends, anyway.
So, given all this preamble about my preferences, why on earth would I want to see a new level of unwanted detail on Facebook via the Twitter app? But there it is, right below the status updates on my logged-in Facebook homepage. “So-and-so is twittering: my Salsbury steak is mushy …” So what? Apparently your brain took a holiday when you decided to twitter that little nugget.
Just one more reason to ignore Twitter and use Facebook even less.