John Y’s Musings from the Middle: Retweeting

Before we “retweet” anything it is important to ask ourselves:

1) Are we doing this because we really think it is a Tweet worthy of retweeting (for the sake of humankind)?

2) Or is it worthy of retweeting more as an inside joke to an inner circle of our friends?

3) Or are we trying to curry favor with the Tweeting person even though we don’t believe the Tweet is all that special?

4) Or are we retweeting a Tweet because that person recently retweeted one of our Tweets (and we’d like for them to do...