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Top Ten Twitter Annoyances

Sandy just posted her Top 10 (well, actually 11-20, the first ten have already been posted!) Facebook annoyances, and it inspired me to write this list. See if you agree... 1. All the RT's . For the love of sweet baby Jesus!! Seriously, do you not have a single unique thought of your own? I know, " Klout "...but still. Enough! 2. # insanelylongandirrationalhashtagsthatyouthinkmakeyourtweetfunnierbutreallytheydont . Bonus points if you can read that quickly. 3. Follow/follow back. I don't get this one. Why? Why is this some sort of "unwritten" Twitter rule? Please, someone explain. 4. People who " haz a sads " and say " bai " and other phrases that escape me at the moment but are equally annoying. 5. All the "Four Square" stuff. Just like Sandy said...do you really want to tell the world and all of it's criminals that you are not home? Or, worse...maybe they are stalking you and just waiting for the right moment to jump ou...

Auto Correct, it ain't all it's cracked up to be.

I'm a Twitter addict. It's the last thing I do before I go to bed (most nights, *wink wink*) and one of the first things I do in the morning. And, it's all thanks to my iPhone...oh, and TweetDeck, too. (Image courtesy Google Images) They make it too easy, iPhones and TweetDeck do. It's so available, so at my fingertips. But, see...the thing with iPhones...or, heck, ANY smart phone, is that they autocorrect. I'll mean to type "hell" and it'll autocorrect to "he'll"...maybe smart phones don't like bad words (I wonder what it would do for the "f" word...hold please, now I'm intrigued...okay, back now. So, apparetnly, smart phones don't mind the "f" word, but don't like "hell". Noted.). Just the other day, I was sending my husband a text...curious as to the status of our offspring...I typed, "Did you pick up the kids yet?", only I obviously misspelled something and what was displayed was...