This article alerted me to a concept that I hadn’t thought about before — Twitter has a culture. There’s an etiquette there that you must follow or be ostracized (or at the least, laughed at.)

Such as: don’t follow a bunch of people unless you’re followed by a bunch of people. I hadn’t thought about it, but I guess it makes sense. It keeps you from looking like the desperate pseudo-popular girl in school.

And, of course: don’t just link to yourself all the time. It’s the equivalent of trying to be in EVERY yearbook picture. You know the ones.

I guess most of the rules that the article suggests boil down to one thing: don’t be an internet vampire, looking for what YOU can get out of every relationship. Authentically enjoy the medium for what it is.