I need to bring up a very important dilemma…one which is shared quite often online and with a lot of debate. This has effects on everyone who partcipates in social networking online and has far reaching ramifications (Ramifications! Wow!)…

Updating your own Facebook Wall and Twitter stream of what you are currently eating.

So there. I said it.

I’m sure a good deal of you reading this at this moment must be saying ‘Darn…Kenny seriously did it! He brought it out in the open!’ It must be stated….plus it ought to be answered.

I will get straight to the point. I support as well as encourage anyone on Social Networking to on a regular basis Facebook and Tweet what you are eating and drinking…essentially constantly.

We currently notice a lot of proof of this online. Let me explain exactly why it’s so necessary.

We all try to eat several times per day. Many try eating as many as 5-6 times each day. A handful even 10-20! (darn you go…but save a little for all of us okay??) Which means that it is clearly something that everybody does a ton of. We additionally post to our Wall on Facebook and Tweet alot as well. Some much more than other people I’m sure and some update far more than they eat.

So doesn’t it make sense to combine the two?

Ever since the dawn of time we have bragged about what we had for our meal the evening before at work the very next day. Wow, I had some rockin’ Tortellini the other day with some insane buttery garlic bread!” Utilizing Social Networking now we’re now far more ‘immediate’ about it.

Real time. Real eating.

Actually, as you consider it, I do believe that’s exactly what Social Media was invented for. Because it sure isn’t any good for advertising and marketing! *wink*

I don’t know about some of you, but now I’m at the stage whereby I check out my Twitter and Facebook to find what folks are chomping down and what tasty beverages they’re enjoying. I’m done with the Twitter posts on Forex, quotes by Confucius and how much Kim Kardashian loves us and her high heel shoes.

Speaking of Miss Kardashian (she’s not married right? I can’t keep up to date), I think she should increase her #tweetingwhatsheseating. I KNOW she eats! Right??

NOTE: We ought to rename Twitter ‘Twitter Kim Kardashian‘. I presume all 200 Gazillion people follow her.

But I digress (been waiting to make use of that phrase for some time…)

Give me a turkey and swiss with a Heineken Tweet any day…and preferably with a picture.

Which brings me to my next point: Pictures with the updates rock! You want to see what everyone is enjoying, correct? That ought to be 50% of one’s updates whenever possible.

Now onto the detractors, or what I call the ‘web food downers. (I haven’t made up a better catchphrase than that which means that suggestions are welcome in the comments below!)

Everyone knows who they are. These people grumble online regularly regarding the…well…updates on food.

‘If I see yet another Tweet of what you ate for lunch I’m deleting you blah blah…’

Is that so? So you’re so genuinely offended by my lunch Tweet you gotta delete me? So inconvenienced that I’ve clogged up your stream (eww!) that you’ll miss that important update on the latest Twitter spamming program?

Well get yourself a frickin’ life Mr. ‘You can make 197 grand on Twitter beginning today because we all know you’re pounding down a Chipotle burrito and washing it down with a 44 ounce Coke with the $8.54 you actually made!

And so there you have it. Just like the title says, I make absolutely no apologies for my #tweetingwhatimeating and I plan to even step it up several notches, and on my blog.

And it’s time that 1…we all confess that we like to eat more than we’ll actually fess up to and need everybody to see it continuously and 2…accept that this is the Real reason Social Networking was invented.

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