Greg Davis asked the question on his blog: “do you have friend standards”? Specifically he was talking about the criteria we use to select our friends on twitter.
I posted a comment that said I don’t have any real hard and fast rules but I decided I ought to clarify what my thinking is (and if it helps you, then great) and the few I have are these:
I’m likely to follow you if you tweet:
- about God or your faith (and not just my God/faith)
- about my job – IT, security, networks..
- my hobbies & passions – gadgets, rugby, cricket, IT, media, church tech..
- other stuff that interests me – self help, study habits..
I’ll also likely follow you if you appear to be someone that will interact with their followers and not sit aloof and only tweet, never reply and never thank when assisted.
On the other hand, I’ll probably not follow you or unfollow you if you tweet:
- about the same one thing all the time, e.g get 1000′s of followers here type
- >10 tweets at a time (why?)
- spam
- porn
And that’s about it.
I’m happy to have folks I follow that aren’t the ultra clean we christians would like or sometimes expect fellow brothers or sisters should follow. Why? Simply because we are called to be ‘in the world’ so I can’t do that if I don’t allow those who oppose my views. Secondly we are called to be ‘not of the world’ and I do that by not bitching, by not gossiping, by not using language I shouldn’t, by … well you get the picture.
What about you?
Do you have twitter friend standards?
RANDOM