Having people I know following me on Twitter is a bigger deal than I previously realised. This is counterintuitive: all sorts of random weirdos/law enforcements/spies are potentially following me, but that never bothered me. If they’re offended or don’t like what I say, they can always piss off.
Say a friend from Facebook somehow found your Twitter account and decided to follow you.
Facebook is different. It seems like it is some sort of civil duty to add anything that is remotely connected to you as a friend, lest you commit a formal insult. Posting something anyone find unsavoury on Facebook, someone will make it their duty to make a pariah out of you. They’ll self righteously say that you shouldn’t posted whatever it is in the first place, that something personally offends them, that they must read it because we’re socially remotely related.
So what happens if someone on Facebook somehow find you on Twitter, whose sense of humour you can only describe as ‘traditional’ and ‘conservative’, and easily offended? Do you a) promptly set you account to private and block them, thus offending them immediately, b) ignore them and offend them later when you least expect it, or c) change the whole way you use Twitter?
