People have had a tendency to fill up the silence with meaningless chatter for ages, now the same people just have much better coverage.

Your comment is much appreciated! I will admit all faults and say I'm guilty of committing a few (or more) of the acts above

Regardless as this post was all meant in fun, you have great points about being a human on Twitter. We can't all be “PR Robots” for instance only tweeting that which applies to PR or media. What makes us interesting is sharing all of our facets.

Thanks!!

Great post and great reminders (very funny too!) I think we can all read this post and go “I was thinking the same thing.” The points that resonate the most for me are about engaging in conversation rather than just broadcasting. I also love your thoughts about Facebook – when someone tries to bulk up all their social networks with the same people they don't really know it begins to feel incredibly un-authentic.

I actually will disagree with you (just a little ) on your first couple of points though. I'm not sure if it's fair to broadly say people shouldn't talk about personal things like what they are wearing. So what becomes fair in terms of conversation outside of professional banter (or is there any?) For example, a lot of the people I follow on Twitter tweet about sports, especially on Sundays, but I've come to expect it and it's cool, because I see some fun conversations going back and forth about what's happening on the field. That said, I try desperately hard not to tweet about food, but sometimes I can't help but give kudos to an awesome salad. In addition, no one's going to stop me from sharing my pictures of my cats, or talking about my latest deal at Bloomingdales. Those are things that make me, well, me, just like public relations. I think it's key to remember that we all have different agendas and interests on our social networks, so we can't always have a one-size-fits-all set of rules.

Again great post! Love the thoughts here.

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Haha! Thanks, Alex.

That said, my fav is #6 because of the dichotomy of meeting brilliant people and social media brown-nosing.

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