Lameness, Thy Name Is Ashton

Pledging on Wednesday night to stop Tweeting until he finds "a way to properly manage this feed," Ashton Kutcher has arrived at a solution.

"I feel responsible for delivering an informed opinion and not spreading gossip or rumors through my Twitter feed," Kutcher wrote in a blog post entitled "Twitter Management" on Thursday. "While I feel that running this feed myself gives me a closer relationship to my friends and fans, I've come to realize that it has grown into more [than] a fun tool to communicate with people."

Reiterating that he's "truely (sic) sorry if I offended anyone," Kutcher explains although he will still post 140-character updates, he is turning the management of the feed over to his team at Katalyst Media "to ensure the quality of its content."

Lame. Manage content? Just check before you speak, or be cool with accepting an occasional mistake. Anyone who posts constantly will make mistakes. We don't drop and let a publicist filter our content. We say oops, correct ourselves and go on.

I'm sick of overreactions in face of a mistake. What is so wrong with taking the hit? Don't get me wrong, I didn't expect much from old A.K. but I think it represents a problem many bloggers and tweeters have. If you are going to publish thousands of things, at least once you are going to be wrong. It's going to be embarrassing. It happens to everyone, take your turn and make it right. If you go to a thousand charity dinners, you will fart loudly once during a quiet moment. This principle of "farts happen" echoes throughout frail humankind's history.

To err is human. To push it off onto a person to filter stupidity is for swine.