This is the title of a recent blog post from Jesse Green's Media and Public Relations for Attorneys and Law Firms Blog . It makes some excellent points and offers some cautionary advice for professionals who may overly tempted to mix the personal with the professional in their web presence. For instance:
"You don’t need the intimacy and immediacy of social networking. Clients and the public do not want or need to know that you are a ‘fan’ of sunsets or to get ‘tweets’ from you between deps. No one cares to get daily updates about the status of your Board Room remodeling project."
Recently, I was accepted as a "friend" on the Facebook page of man who also happens to be an elected official in a Southeast Michigan community. I don't visit Facebook often; in fact, I get messages notifying me of that fact. But when I went to that gentleman's page recently, the information contained dealt, almost exclusively with his on-line poker experiences and with his "Mafia Wars" progress. (For the uninitiated, Mafia Wars is an on line game of some sort, or something.) Good luck to this guy in the next election.
I have no personal use for Twitter, and I am sure someone has beaten me to the punch in calling Twitter's devotees, "Twits".
So, be careful out there. Twitter's Tweets do allow me to indulge in the guilty pleasure of posting this clip from YouTube featuring Hugh Laurie in a pre-House incarnation as Bertie Wooster in a dramatization of one of PG Wodehouse's classic Jeeves books. Bertie plays and sings "Tweet, Tweet."
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