I would like to know who creates all these rules about what you should and should not post on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. I mean, I assume we all have some common sense and know how to use censorship not to make fools of ourselves (probably a wrong assumption), but what is so wrong with telling your friends where you are and what you’re doing. I haven’t seen any of that in the actual TOS of social media sites.

Last week I learned a new word, Twittiquette, which works OK for business-related social media, but leaves the day to day user feeling like his/her life has no transcendence. I quote:

Be interesting. There are far too many people who even if they aren’t tweeting about their diet or the weather are still amazingly boring. Remember, if you have nothing to say it is better to keep your mouth shut.

Sure, we all want to spice in our lives, but some days are just so normally boring. It doesn’t mean we should refrain ourselves from interacting online because we’re being 100% human, right?

And now CNN decided to post a list of infamous Facebookers. Basically if you’re not discussing business or how your next start-up company is going to change the world, you shouldn’t be bothering posting what you ate for breakfast.

I know how annoying invitations to applications and quizzes are, but that’s about the only thing that can bother me about Facebook. I really don’t care about my friends post; after all I decided to add them to my list. And there’s a block option for those pesky quizzes and games, I use it (and I play those horrible games, too).

My point is, this “holier than thou” attitude I’m seeing in social media is making me sad. Someone pointed to me that humanity is always looking for exceptional people. And I wonder what it takes for someone to be exceptional. For me, an exceptional person is one who cares about the human race and strives to bring something good to everyone, especially those in need. For some others, an exceptional person is Bill Gates and his millions and his technology ideas. So that “exceptionality” is actually relative.

Nothing makes you better or worse than anyone, and nobody should make others feel like they are less because their priorities in life are different. It all depends on which pond you’re trying to swim in. I’m not going to add a bunch of technology related people to my very simple life Twitter network. And I don’t expect people to always find my posts amusing -I know I don’t find other people’s post amusing all the time- but I wouldn’t go as far as saying one way or the other is the correct one for social media interaction.

I guess it’s like everything else, we all belong in our groups and we all should look for a common ground. If I’m trying to sell a product of service, then yes, I’m all for professionalism. But if my group of Facebook and Twitter friends is composed by people who have a simple life like mine, then I wouldn’t mind to know they had toast for breakfast.