[drblast]

Maybe I'm getting old, but I don't understand the compulsion to post potentially embarassing information about yourself on the Internet.

I can't believe people are arguing about the right way to do this.

Twenty years ago, it was rare for someone to call everyone they ever knew and scream into the phone how drunk they were. I might have done that only once or twice in my life. (If I called you by mistake and woke you up at 2AM, I apologize.)

But today, if you can't provide a web-based service that not only allows you to do that very thing but protects you from the consequences of it, people will complain.

[skore]

I think you are confusing push and pull communication. Twitter does not ring up every single person on the planet whenever I share something, but what I share does appear in their feed once they care to check.

If it were push communication, you'd be right to complain, but since it is pull communication, other rules of etiquette apply.