Twitter & protecting your tweets

Privacy privacy privacy. The media & world scares us into believe bad things well happen if we post stuff online. Weather that is are twitter page to our Facebook or personal website. In some content there comes a point when you just start to think before you post. It’s a common theme some ads & organizations are trying to put out. If it’s not something you would randomly yell at Wal-Mart then don’t tweet about it. If you want to talk to someone without too much info getting out don’t write it on their Facebook wall. That’s like writing a message on Wal-Mart billboards & having thousands of people seeing it whenever they want to. But you say “Grant I have my Facebook on private” “Grant I have my twitter feed to not show my tweets” well guess what You’re not a social person with the world around you. You’re stuck in your own scared zone.

Before I follow someone on Twitter, I check out their profile page (assuming I don’t know them already). I read the bio, and I look at the person’s tweets to see if this is someone who will add value to my stream.(don’t want to follow junk or a teen girl’s relationship problems) From talking to others, this is common behavior. I want to follow a real person who has somewhat of my interest.
When I see this




I most of the time won’t even bother to send a request. Unless it’s a good friend I actually know.
So, for this reason alone, protecting updates makes it much harder to grow your network, even if you take the time to find people to follow.
Another downside of protecting your updates is that your tweets cannot be retweeted. This means that when you do say something wonderful or share great news, it cannot spread beyond the people who’ve cleared your blocked-hurdle. I have had this happen on many occasions. One of my friends who has a “protected twitter feed’ well post something I find interesting or just want to share with my fellow friends. Instead of just easily Retweeting it. I must copy it & then possibly have someone yell @ me for using there written material.

I do care very much who I follow, and I choose appropriately. When I run into a protected user, though, I’m blind. Again, most folks said the same thing: a protected user is unlikely to be followed.
Protecting your updates is a personal choice, and there are many reasons folks do it. Still, if one of your goals on Twitter is to build a network, you’ll be far better served by letting your tweets be visible to one and all. But if your just on there to yell random useless bits of info. Then maybe you should turn you page into protected mode for you can yell to a select few who follow you.
I don’t have all day to read endless tweets. I have to narrow down what I can read & engage in…that’s a whole different subject we could talk about later…how to use twitter without it using your time.

Do you protect your tweets? And if so… why? Or do you send requests to protected users all the time? Please comment below. Also I do know there are probably lots of grammar mistakes. I’m dyslexia so I try my best to proofread & edit. Please feel free to edit this & send it to me. I would totally cite you @ the bottom & forever love you so much.
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