No hard feelings, but

Everybody has their own Twitter rules; be it a person who takes the social-networking site seriously or just for fun (that's their rule; to have fun). Here's a list of mine.

1. One must not chat too long with one''s friend like one's using an instant messaging service. There's YM, MSN, G-Talk, BBM, and the most ancient way to do it these days, SMS. Use them. Don't spam my timeline with your conversation, especially when you guys are arranging an appointment. Unless you're Tiger Woods and one of his mistresses, your followers don't wanna know where you guys are having coffee with each other.

2. Use the Re-tweet feature wisely. If #1 is bad, it's worse when people do it by re-tweeting instead of replying each other. Re-tweeting is like forwarding an email; the original message is attached to what you're about to send. RT, my dearly beloved, is not Reply To.

3. One must not post too many pictures of one's activities the whole day through. I get that using smart phones means it's easy to click, save, and upload pictures. But oh my dear God, I don't want to see your breakfast, your lunch, your snack, that freakin' old lady you see on the streets, and other nitbits no one should ever care about.

4. Still related to #3, one must, must not post too many baby pictures. So you just gave birth - or worse, someone in your family did, and maybe you want to document their growth. But Holy Onesies, we need not know every single minute of it. The baby's born --click, upload. The baby's home --click, upload. The baby's sleeping --click, upload. The baby's closing eyes --click, upload. The baby's...well you get my point.

5. One must rethink about blogs when having the desire to rant in more than 140 words. You see, ranting is fine by me - I'm a whiny little princess every now and then. But when you want to ramble on and on about what a bad day you had, a private blog is recommended. I get that a boy just broke your heart or your boss was being an ass by your first 2 x 140 characters. Anything more than that is just plainly annoying. Go spam your own blog - that way, nobody's eyesight gets hurt.

There they are, my five rules of Twitter. Maybe later, as it is growing even more uncontrollably in this trend-driven country and I happen to follow more people, I'll also have more to hate.

And yes, I've un-followed some people due to some of the reasons above. Don't worry, we can still be friends in Facebook, YM, MSN, BBM, and the most traditional form of all networking tools these days, SMS.