I am a huge twitter fan. It has seriously worked itself into my everyday lifestyle and I am easily on twitter more than the phone, facebook, or even email. It’s a great way to connect, share, and discover all sorts of information quickly and concisely. However, I also see people using twitter in some really unhealthy ways and just wanted to issue a challenge.
I see people venting on twitter in passive aggressive ways (of which I am guilty myself), I see consistently negative information from some people, and I see hurtful things directed at people.
What you tweet about is a great reflection of what’s on your mind and usually what consumes your thoughts determines what you place importance on. For instance if all your tweets are about Saints football news (just sayin…:) then you probably love Saints football. But as a deeper barometer do this…
Look at your last 25 tweets and ask yourself:
1.) Is this positive or negative?
2.) Is this about me or others?
3.) Could I have dealt with this emotion better?
4.) Is this subject important to me?
5.) How did this make someone else feel?
There may be more questions or different questions you need to ask, but the point is this. We all need to evaluate who we are and what’s important to us on the foundation. This sounds trivial, but at the suggestion of my friend Taylor I did this myself and it was rather eye opening. So take a simple look at your last 25 tweets and see if you are what you tweet.
Taylor
12 July 2010 at 6:53 pm
nice post my friend. i forgot we had talked about this. eye opening for sure!
Ashley
12 July 2010 at 7:32 pm
Very interesting! It seems what’s on my mind the most is sleep, food, and music. It was a cool challenge, though, because I came across complaint-tweets in there that I forgot about.
JP
12 July 2010 at 8:31 pm
Thanks for the gut check. Since “tweeting” I’ve tried very hard to either be witty or informative; in checking my last 25 it seems I have been neither, unless of course the twitterverse wanted to know where I was via @foursquare.
Ashley C
12 July 2010 at 8:48 pm
I’m not gonna lie…. I was a little scared to look back at my past Tweets for fear of what I might find. I was pleasantly surprised to find most of them positive with a few negative sprinkled around. I don’t think I’ve actually been aware of what type of person I have been portraying through twitter and will definitely be in the future. Thanks for the check point! Think before you Tweet!