Twitter, among other things, provides and opportunity to say whatever you want to say to a lot of people before actually haven’t think about what you’re saying.
This is a great thing if you’re a seasoned veteran in the spiritual discipline of self control. The problem is that most people aren’t as “godly” in this area as they’d like to admit.
I have really enjoyed a recent personal trend where I’m beginning to think a lot more clearly about what I want to tweet and what I really shouldn’t. It’s not “Wow, I need to tweet this!” and instead it’s “Wow, I’ll just keep this to myself.”
Wouldn’t it be great if there was some spiritual barometer or spiritual CAPTCHA that would ban people if they didn’t meet the spiritual requirements? What exactly would that look like?
I’m just kidding, btw. That would be a terrible idea…
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Would a spiritual CAPTCHA really be that bad? After all, Gmail offers Mail Goggles for preventing regrettable emails. Maybe there could be a form that requires typing the fruits of the spirit before submission is allowed. This could encourage you to consider the content you’re about to post. At the very least, it would be good practice for memorizing the fruits of the spirit.
haha! great way to memorize. brilliant!
captcha not such a bad idea! Good things come in small tweets! Hope you get a lot more of these ideas!
Well, I have a story to tell about this. Thursday night is when the kids go to "kids church." That's date night at St. Arbucks for my wife and I. The kids are supposed to get out at 8:15, but lately they've been getting out later. Well Thursday night it was like 8:35. In frustration….from my blackberry, I tweeted how the youth pastor should stop keeping the kids late because it is rude.
I forgot about it.
I also forgot in that moment that my Pastor follows me on Twitter. On Friday afternoon, I get a direct message from him saying, "Do you want to talk to Barry?" I had no idea what he was talking about. Barry is the youth pastor, but since I had forgotten about my tweet, I had no clue. I asked. He sent me another dm that said, "8:15 or 8:30." I was still clueless. Finally I called him and left him a message. He sent me a text telling me what he was talking about and when I realized what it was about……..FACE PALM.
I saw the youth pastor today and apologized to him (he's not on Twitter so he has no idea) and just took it as a lesson in thinking more before I tweet.
ouche.
Yes, I've done this sort of thing before. I used to think of Twitter as simply a stream-of-consciousness outlet. So when I had a thought that is negative against someone, as long as I didn't mention their name or any identifiable characteristics about them, I sent out a little tweet mentioning it. What a terrible idea.
I'd love a personal CAPTCHA, but I think more than that I'd love a little man (I'm not sure why he's got to be little) that would follow me around and say, "What the heck were you thinking when you just said that?"
I pretty much have about 0 control over my tweets…part of the reason i no longer work where i used to is my tweets…oops. but i am learning.
i'm burned out on tweets…
i'm more and more feeling like since everything is tweetworthy, nothing is tweetworthy. i still see it as a valuable medium for communication. but over the past month or so, I've moved back to my blog. now when i think 'oh man i should tweet this' i filter it back through, 'am i willing to blog about this, facebook this, or even text or email one specific person?'
generally the answer is no, and i think i feel better for the fact that I am producing a little less web content.
Please agree with me in prayer that people stop messing with me, using demons.