I took a look at Think Progress and noticed a recent post about Rep. Pete Hoekstra leaking secret government information via Twitter. I had to read the headline twice. Honestly, leaking government information through a social media outlet. What is the world coming to? Are we too comfortable online?
While I feel that recent social media developments, Twitter, in particular are an effective way of reaching and connecting people, I am having trouble buying into the idea that government officials should be tweeting away all day. This raises significant problems of security and national safety. Some things are better left unsaid.
It used to be that people were afraid to share their private thoughts. Diaries came with locks, journals were hidden under mattresses. However today we blog about our personal lives, we tweet our daily activities almost to the minute.
How comfortable is too comfortable when it comes to distributing our personal information via the Internet? Everyone has a line. As the ranking leader of the House intelligence committee you think Hoekstra would have better sense, and if not, at least he should have better things to do than post his arrival in Iraq on Twitter.
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