I follow a very specific philosophy of connecting with people on the internet. That means I want to connect, but not everyone does. As far as I can tell, my breaking point is following 300 people. Beyond that, Twitter is *only* a tool for publicity and random narcissism for me.

But not everyone agrees. Some people follow 16000, 25000, or even 100,000 twitterers. To me, it’s like this: we’re on the phone, but instead of a conversation, I just sit and listen to you talk. It’s one-way communication in a two-way age. “follow *everyone* who follows you.” The problem is, they don’t want to know me, and I don’t want to know them. So it’s mutually assisted narcissism.

Not only that, *my* tweets go from valuable to them, to spam as well! Can you see how good content becomes spam so quickly? Spam is quietly threatening Facebook, Twitter, and basically all of social media. But unlike email, you can actually fix it!

Ok, that’s the end of my three post rant on spam. I really just think it’s valuable to clean up your digital life.

Tags: spam

Posted on Thursday, October 22nd in Best Practices.