Twitter Bashing = Stupid!

If you were seeing a computer for the first time… would you fully understand what it could do for you? What value it could bring you? Why it may be worth having one? No! You wouldn’t!

Why are we so prone to judging or dismissing things that we know very little about? It makes us look stupid when we do that! Case in point:

Johnny: I think paper maps are the best things ever… those stupid GPS things are just for chumps… I mean why would you want to clutter your car with some talking cheesy gizmo when you could just pull out your paper map from the glove compartment and find exactly where you need to go?

Jackie: GPS fits in the glove compartment too. Works similar to a map but appears to be far more efficient – you just type in your destination and follow the audible instructions… instead of driving while reading an oversized bill board from your lap.

Johnny: Oh! I thought the GPS thingy was just for finding restaruants. Cuz I have a phone book for that.

Jackie: Ummmm. No. It’s a little bit more than that!

Johnny: Oh!

First of all… we need to back up. 95% of all bashing  is stupid <unless it’s bashing Dubyah! That’s ok!> Have any of you Twitter Bashers ever asked a person who is an avid Twitter user… why they love twitter? what value they get from it? How it has changed their life? Why they would recommend it? <I didn’t think so!>

Excuse me if I think you may have briefly embraced a self righteous, holier than thou, I can’t think for myself, I like to be ignorant, and of course I’m always right,  kind of a mentality! Stop it! you’re smarter than that…

5 Reasons Why I tweet:

5. Professional life demands it! I work in marketing and advertising. It is my duty to stay on top of emerging media, market trends and the evolution of consumer behavior. The people I choose to follow on twitter are experts in their field, tuned in to information I need to know about or provide me with a great sounding board for discussing differences in opinion. Some of them just make me laugh!

4. Sharing something of value with others. Call it Karma, human nature, or <your word here> – I absolutely believe that you must first give before you get. I try to give a lot to my followers on Twitter. I recommend them. Make introductions for them to people I think they should know. I share information with them. I look for job applicants for my HR tweeps. I share job postings. I send them to resources that they may need to be aware of. Or warn people about the police hiding with radar guns at the QEW Dorval exit.

3. Meet smart people. I am connected to people I typically wouldn’t be able to connect with in real life. I seek out certain people who I think are amazing at life. I follow them, learn from them, share with them.

2. Breaking news… I’d even be inclined to say that I get breaking news from twitter faster than I get from the stockmarket. Yeah… that’s fast.

1. I’m social. 

So stop shouting the odds about twitter being a stupid tool for people. And it’s really not a tool for you to tell the rest of us when you’re at Starbucks. I assure you… nobody in my network tells me when they’re at starbucks… and if they do more than a few times… there is a great little twitter tool called “UNFOLLOW”.

Stop bashing shit you know little about! If it still doesn’t take your fancy… fair enough. But leave the rest of us in peace – we’re busy making this planet a far more socially responsible and happy one.