140 characters are all it takes for someone to make a fair judgment on your personality. I beg you to use your Twitter account in a way that displays you in a positive light because those few words can really make people think twice about you. There are some topics that people seem to incessantly tweet about that should never meet the light of a laptop screen.

Some of the worst topics that are popular on a Twitter newsfeed include relationship problems, bodily functions and bragging about getting drunk. What goes through these people’s minds while tweeting, the world may never know.

“While businesses probably do not check Twitter as much, you should still keep your tweets appropriate. Tweet as if your grandma is following you,” said Bridget O’Connell, senior in ACES. There is always that one person that you follow because they have no idea what privacy is. They are a train wreck and they find joy in broadcasting it to the world via Twitter. I wish I had the will power to un-follow these people, but there is just something so rewarding and entertaining about reading their tweets.

This type of tweeter commonly tweets the classic couple’s fight. I once followed a couple that was going through a messy breakup and they were live tweeting it for a week. I would scroll through their tweets about how the other person was a pathetic loser and needed to get a life. The couple went as far as to tag each other in the tweets so there was absolutely no question whatsoever as to whom they were about.

Yes, this is very fun to read, but please don’t be these people. Relationship problems should be kept between the couple and not actually put out on Twitter in real time. If you want to put your inner most feelings into a medium, buy yourself a diary and save everyone else from your mindless arguments about how he was a jerk to you and doesn’t have the word sorry in his vocabulary.

Another horrible tweet topic is the disgusting bodily function tweet. The main culprits tend to be boys, but some girls have been known to put them out onto the World Wide Web. The infamous tweets from the toilet usually have no other point other than to remind its followers that the tweeter is still repulsive and not as funny as he or she thinks they are. They range anywhere from completely unsettling to just plain odd. It should never be a priority to make your fecal matter a public discussion. We just don’t care that you got your highest score on temple run while sitting on Chipotle’s porcelain throne.

The alcoholic tweet is also a seemingly popular one. These tweets consist of the perpetrator talking about how drunk they are going to get or how drunk they already are. These juvenile tweets about how “hardcore and reckless” you are makes you seem like you’re still stuck in high school. These tweets don’t make people think you have street cred or are cool. Let’s face it, you’re just trying much too hard. There is a definite difference between tweeting about going out and tweeting about how you are going to be drowning in blue guys and will probably forget your name tonight.

In the words of the young pop sensation Mindless Behavior, “140 characters is more than enough.” So please, tweet responsibly.

_Haley is a freshman in Media._