Comments on: The 5 People Who Could Destroy Twitter

By: Irene Koehler

Irene Koehler — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:13:39 +0000

Re: #5…
I *am* the mom – and very active on twitter. My college-age kid has yet to be even slightly interested in joining. She does, however, occasionally read my tweets as it is all very public. Keep in mind also, that family members and bosses may very well be following you under a username unfamiliar to you. It really isn’t hard at all. Whether or not your mom joins really isn’t an issue at all. If you don’t want your mom, spouse, employer, professor, parole officer seeing your content, don’t put it online. Period.

After reading so many times about how Baby Boomers or *moms* are ruining social media, I wrote (tongue in cheek): Is Generation Y Killing Radio? http://bit.ly/WswHr

And, for those who think their FB is private, it’s often not as private and protected as you may think. Again, if you don’t want everyone to know, don’t put it online.

By: Steve Broner

Steve Broner — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:08:50 +0000

My mom *is* online.

She occasionally reads my tweets.

Kudos to her for braving through all the spam, malware, and the jungle that is the internet. If her interest in getting engaged in the dialog trumps frustration enough for her to learn comfortably, so be it.

No need to censor. We’re all learning here.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:58:47 +0000

Zombies. Zombies would destroy Twitter. All they would talk about is who’s brains they were eating for breakfast. Boooring.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:20:03 +0000

Hahahaha! I am NOT kidding: as I was reading point #5 a facebook friend request came in from my 80 year old uncle. I adore and respect this man and now I’m in a quandry: do I delete some slightly off-colour party photos from my facebook profile before accepting him? I’m a grown man and I’m worried about this — can’t imagine what it’s like for teens and twenty-somethings.

By: Robin Piggott

Robin Piggott — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:49:50 +0000

Great article, well structured,well spelt (very important!) altogether readable and not over-geeky.

Geeks may be the flavour of the month (and for some time to come?) but they do not yet control the world.One day they will be known as Geeky-Boomers.

Twitter is a tool that levels the playing field, thank goodness and is far better than many other Social Media sites with all those stupid and mindless flashing apps.

For the record , like Janet above, I beat my kids not only to Twitter but also to the web.

Baby Boomers may yet triumph….

By: Adam Green

Adam Green — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:55:26 +0000

You forgot a growing trend, porn avatars and follows. Twitter is hardly safe for work any more. What happens when all those politicians who now use Twitter see these? What about AGs out there who already have tasted blood from Craigslist? And then there is Oprah. What if she starts attacking Twitter as unsafe for kids? Never underestimate the power of porn. Twitter has no idea how to deal with this. They can’t possibly afford the staff needed to screen all avatars as they are added and changed.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:19:38 +0000

I use longurl.org to preview a short url.

By: Jan white

Jan white — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:57:21 +0000

If everyone followed Sonja’s Golden Rule advice, imagine what the world could be thanks to twitter ?! Thanks to all who are trying to do just that.

By: Sonja

Sonja — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:08:30 +0000

oh and re: #5 “your mom”. My mother follows me on twitter and reads my blog. It’s the only way she can keep up with my life since I live out-of-province. I solved the work/social/family dilemma years ago by making a commitment to not do anything or say anything online that would embarrass myself, my family or my co-workers.

I just follow the golden rule. Easy enough.

By: Sonja

Sonja — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:03:14 +0000

Re: allowing for URLs outside of the 140 character limit. I read an interview with the founder of Twitter a few days ago here in Canada, and he mentioned they are working to implement that.

Well thought-out article; thank-you.