Are you under 35? After sex, have you ever raced to your laptop or grabbed your iPhone and tweeted “SCOOOORE!” (or yelled “FIFTY!”)?
You’re not alone. According to a recent study, the consumer electronics review site, 36 percent of you Millennials have not only tweeted or given status updates after sex, they were updates that you’d just had sex.
Look, I’m all for honesty and transparency online, but that doesn’t mean you have to tell us everything.
What’s surprising about the findings is the post-coital communications broke down by age group:
- 40-somethings called their friends.
- People over 60 wrote thank you notes
Okay, none of that was true. But the whole post-coital tweeting thing still is.
Maybe I’m an old prude, but I really don’t want to hear about people’s sex lives. I’m still trying to fathom why people would want to tweet that they’re walking the dog, are going shopping, or had a bagel for breakfast.
We’re not sure if people are actually tweeting more about their sex lives, or they were always this open and honest, and now Twitter has enabled them to do it more efficiently. That is, Twitter has turned your social network into one giant locker room.
This is also why reputation management is important. You need to make sure that the information you’re putting out there is appropriate for public consumption. There are three very good reasons why you need to make sure you’re not tweeting inappropriate stuff.
- Your tweets are now searchable on Google and Bing in real time.
- Your Facebook page will show up on Google search results. Or you could be like one lucky guy I found, whose photo on “My friends are getting married, I’m just getting drunk” was at the very top of the search results. Results a possible employer might find.
- Your mom is on Facebook and Twitter, and is reading what you say. Reading “He just left. I hope he calls me. I forgot his name.” is probably not one of her prouder moments.
(Special thanks to my friend, Lalita Amos, for the heads up. And then laughing with me as we cracked several bad jokes about this.)
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I don’t get the big deal. It looks like this was a survey on a blog about social media. If you are browsing the web and reading posts about social media, it’s no wonder that those that took the survey claimed that they did tweet. It’s linkbait to me–but I’m writing a comment, so it worked.
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