How To Agree, Disagree & Remain Friends On Twitter: 3 Unique Perspectives. [Part 2]
This is a rather long post but well worth the read. As we all discover the benefits of social networking there are some dangers to recognize too. Please learn from our experiences and incorporate our mistakes into your own social networking repertoire. We hope you will share this will colleagues and fellow Twitters and fell free to tweet us your thoughts and feelings.
JoAnn PackagingDiva’s perspective on how to agree, disagree and remain friends on Twitter.
Regina, Michelle and I learned a lesson this week: Some things you just can’t discuss on Twitter. It started innocently enough two colleagues with like minded interests discussing a common topic the environment. It seems like such an easy issue to cover with pithy insightful comments but we soon learned it was more difficult to express our opinions with clarity than we first thought. To make matters worse third parties were weighing in with additional commentary on our dialog so following the conversation thread became quite convoluted.
As I’m sure you are all aware anything to do with the environment is a very complicated and touchy issue. As we tweeted innocently our dialogue escalated and became “touchy” before we even realized that each was misunderstanding the others thought processes and intentions. Fortunately we are both savvy people and recognized that we couldn’t resolve our discussions or explain our thinking in 140 characters allowed on Twitter.
We agreed amicably to move the discussion to a different forum more private and that allows for more one on one interaction as well as unlimited expression of ones thoughts.
I love Twitter, I use it faithfully every day, its garnered me friends and gotten me business too. But it has its limits as we found out today. Twitter is fun, exciting and very intense. If it’s serious discussion you want you need a different forum. The important thing is to recognize that now all issues are “Twitter worthy.” Either they are too complicated, too involved or too private to tweet about at length. A hot button issue like the environment is very emotional to everyone so If I had to do it over I would not delve so far into the topic.
Lessons learned:
Don’t monopolize the bandwidth with your private discussions;
Think before you tweet on topics that are sensitive;
Always keep the door open no matter how heated the discussion might become;
When discussions become too intense move them to a different forum;
Lastly think before you tweet where your discussion thread might ultimately lead
You are tweeting with purpose so agree, disagree but always remain friends with your Twitter buddies.
Happy Twittering from your Twitter friends saravsoap, drflower and packagingdiva.
Happy Packaging!
JoAnn Hines
Packaging Diva
All Packaging All Of The Time
JoAnn Hines
Packaging Diva
All Packaging All Of The Time
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