Sarah Pulliam Bailey (@spulliam) ponders a great question in one of here tweets: “don’t know y xian leadrs twt in airports.” Some folks tweet on autopilot. No matter what they’re doing, no matter where they are, every mundane detail of their day gets posted for others to read. Auto-tweeting has two problems—it bores readers and it interferes with real relationships. It’s one thing if a meeting gets interrupted by a phone call, but please don’t ignore what I’m saying so you can tweet about the fried zucchini spears. As a culture we are increasingly struggling with being present. Our minds are always somewhere else. Again, my principle of tweeting for the sake of others meant avoiding meaningless and mundane tweets, and not tweeting while engaged with a real live human.
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