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I read this article on Mashable today on Seven Ways To Get Your Mom On Twitter, and just had to write my own version of this: Seven Reasons Not To Get Your Mom On Twitter.

Here are my seven reasons for NOT getting your mom on twitter:

1. Keep your mom from tracking your every movement. Based on the traffic I see on twitter, I’m not so sure having your mother know what you are doing at every moment is such a good thing. Maybe I’ve been gone from home too long, but really–I can imagine the tweets now: “Why are you always out drinking late at parties?”  “Honey, who’s that strange person tweeting you about doing beer pongs tonight?” “Dear me, oh my. Did you know one of your twitter followers just tweeted you a url to a naughty site?”

2. More twitter noise: and from your parents. Sample tweets: “Worried about Charlie. He coughed up another hairball this morning.” “Booked golf game. Weather is lovely today.” “Did you hear? The neighbors up the street just moved.” “I’m going to live-tweet the next weeks worth of daytime soaps, isn’t that wonderful!”

3. More guilt for not calling mom. “Honey, how come you haven’t tweeted this morning to me? I sent you 4 tweets last night about my bingo game!” “Your brother Bill tweets all the time, how come you never do?!” “The neighbor’s boy Sam just got a big raise and a company car. Why can’t you be more like him?”

4. You mom might follow all your friends. Likely since it seems people seem to follow everyone their friends are. Do you REALLY want your Mom to know what you and your friends are doing? Tweets: “I’m shocked by the language your friends are using on twitter! You shouldn’t be following folks like that.” “Don’t any of your friends work, or are they all just unemployed and tweet all day?”

5. All of your mom’s friends might follow you. “Just saw @yourmom just followed you, thought we’d invite the whole bridge club” “Why don’t you talk to your mother more often?” “Our lady’s auxiliary is having a bake sale, could you invite all your techie friends over?” “Your mother is very concerned about you, how come you weren’t at church on Sunday?”

6. You might learn more than you’d ever like to know about mom. Tweets: “Oh dear, my constipation is really acting up this morning. Anyone have any ideas?” “Your father has really bad gas today. We’ve got to stop making baked beans.” “Just saw the UPS delivery man. Gives me chills just thinking about him!”

and, the last reason not to get your mom on twitter:

7.  Your mom might have more twitter followers than you do.

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