Is it just me or has this thing taken on a new level of sensitivity lately? Seems you can't have a sense of humour or opinion on there without some jumped up PC saddo calling you out on it.
Stupid TwitsChris Johnson, editor of Click Liverpool, is never short of wise words and his latest are ones that should be heeded by any social networking fiend.
"Twitter can be dangerous", he said and that observation could not be any closer to the truth as sensitivity now appears to be the order of the day on the micro-blogging network.
Everyone it seems nowadays uses Twitter; friends, family and colleagues alike appear to have bought into the notion that the only way of making themselves heard on the information superhighway is by using just 140 characters.
It is novel concept but it is also in grave danger of suffering the same fate as other hit social networking outlets and being overrun by political correctness.
I have a Twitter account as it is a useful tool to use when communicating with readers and fellow journalists. What I did not sign up for, however, was to have each and every 'tweet' scrutinised by the sensitivity brigade.
The tweets in question were not racist, homophobic, offensive or even controversial - merely dry-humoured remarks. No one was directly targeted but political correctness bores took them far out of context and made a mountain out of a molehill.
You would have thought I had committed some heinous crime judging by the comments responding to my tweet but the internet is a serious business to some people and there is always one willing to get uppity over the slightest thing purely for the sake of mock outrage.
Society seems to have taken on a new level of über-sensitivity and Twitter is the latest flavour of the month being placed under the microscope by the current breed of Mary Whitehouses.
This is one of the problems with communicating via computer - things can be misinterpreted and blown out of all proportion to the point that the message originally trying to be conveyed is lost entirely and replaced with something far more sinister.
People aren't allowed to call a spade a spade any more for fear that it will be twisted to suit the agendas of a select few.
Twitter isn't the problem here, just like Facebook and MySpace weren't before it. Society has taken political correctness a further step in the wrong direction and should reconsider its stance before picking up the cyber pitchforks once again.
http://www.clickliverpool.com/blogs/richard-buxton/195-stupid-twits.html