10 Golden Rules Of MB Club UK

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Actually it's from The Times/Radio 2, and is about Twitter, however, which ones read across to here?




I post it as a bit of fun, so feel free to remove it, before (instead of) amputating my cyber fingers........
  1. Twitter IS publishing. Putting it out there for others to read is publishing. So don’t tweet anything you wouldn’t be happy to see on the newsagent’s shelf with a picture of you above it.
  2. You think you know the law of libel. You don’t. Nor do any of your friends. I have had grown men telling me on Twitter this week that repeating a libel is not itself libel (it is) or that if you don’t directly say X is a rampant Y, but just hint at it then it doesn’t count (it does).
  3. If you’re an obscure nobody who no one follows, but who wants to say something rude sort-of privately, don’t do it under a trending hashtag. You will bring the wrath of thousands of strangers down on your hapless head.
  4. Some people LIKE the wrath of strangers. They’re called trolls. If you feel yourself bridling at repeated rude comments aimed at you and your cherished views then just BLOCK the offender. They disappear as if by magic.
  5. You are hurt. Wounded. Someone has questioned your talent or integrity. You wish to howl with online pain. Don’t. Those who enjoy your discomfiture will gather like crows around a carcase. Laugh. Put up a smiley.
  6. That brilliant retort you have composed, replete with pungent sexual or violent imagery, which will utterly destroy the Twitter foe who has, despite my advice, so annoyed you? Cherish it. Roll its 140 characters on your tongue. And then, for God’s sake, DELETE IT.
  7. Don’t tweet while drunk. You think it’s clever, and funny, you giggle and dribble at your own brilliant verbiage. But you are opening wide the gates of Hell. Morning will come, cold and clear.
  8. Don’t EVER meet a jolly Twitter companion, even one you’ve been ff’ing (suggesting people follow you every Friday) for months. Not without a police report. I learnt the hard way.
  9. Get yourself a decent avatar (picture) on Twitter. Not that default egg or the eye slicing scene from Un Chien Andalou. For everyone else’s sake.
  10. Lastly, the golden rule, the rule of rules. Never, ever tweet anything about anybody that you wouldn’t say to their face. There’s a REASON why you wouldn’t say it to their face. They might hit you, or sue you. So why would you want to tweet it?
 
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Rule 0. Don't bother with Twitter at all...ever.



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Can someone explain Twitter to me?

What's all this 'hash tag', 'trending' and 're-tweeting' mean?
 
As its a medium mostly populated by narcissistic ****s and the idiots who hang on their every word, knowing what it all means probably won't make much difference to your everyday life Lee
 
As its a medium mostly populated by narcissistic ****s and the idiots who hang on their every word, knowing what it all means probably won't make much difference to your everyday life Lee

Straight to the point, just how I like it. :thumb:
 
I'm so old I can't even text.



But I can witter a bit!!
 
As its a medium mostly populated by narcissistic ****s and the idiots who hang on their every word, knowing what it all means probably won't make much difference to your everyday life Lee

I use it every day.
 
Twitter: a device used by twits, nitwits and folk who don't realise what a tit they really are.
 
I joined twitter one day, then left the following day. Maybe I'm to old but didn't understand it and more than half of what was said in there was unreadable.
 

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