“People can be really stupid.” That statement is so cliche, right? Well, I just don’t know any better way to put it. I am talking about using Twitter. I think it is a pretty cool tool for getting your thoughts and activities out to the public. In a split second, with the click of a button, you can share anything you want with millions.
That grand ability can also fuck you over if you are not careful. If you are not “thinking.” For instance, you don’t tweet that you are about to leave your home for days or even hours: “Hey all, I’m going to the beach right now. Gonna be there all day. I am leaving my $3000 computer and big screen TV behind for the taking. Oh, btw, I am also leaving the key under the front door mat and the security code to the alarm is 3342. Ok, talk to y’all later.”
I am being silly with that example, of course, but people do make asinine tweets like that. I recently read in the news that this guy with several hundred followers tweeted that he was leaving town. His followers also knew from his previous tweets that he owned thousands of dollars in camera equipment. Surprise, Surprise, his house was broken in to and the equipment was stolen. Now, there wasn’t any direct evidence that his tweets were responsible for the robbery, but the man who was robbed and the detective on the case believed it.
There was another guy who was about to land a job, and then tweeted: “Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating my work.” The guy was excited and I give him that, but you don’t put those kind of thoughts out on a “very” public forum unless you are prepared for the repercussions. Turns out, the tweet unsurprisingly got back to Cisco and the man didn’t get the job. He was an idiot for saying he hated his job on Twitter.
So think before you tweet, people.
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