> But when you post something to twitter as a public post, it is a public post and you simply don't have control over the discussion. There are always shades o

> But when you post something to twitter as a public post, it is a public post and you simply don't have control over the discussion. There are always shades of publicity. If I took any stupid comments / drunk photos of you on Facebook or Twitter and ran a full-page ad in the NYTimes featuring them, would you say, "well, public is public"? That would be just giving into the slippery slope fallacy.