Yes, people's old tweets can be revealing and worth probing. Yes, they can also easily be misinterpreted and taken out-of-context—and weaponized by bad-faith actors. Also, yes people grow and change and we should welcome this. No, you cannot avoid judgment in all this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Thus, there is no single standard/answer. My only universal is to leave minors out of it—don't drag kids before a national audience for social media. They've a long path to their adult selves. Don't make a 10th grade awful tweet the first Google hit for their name. Let them grow.
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10th grade is really too early a cutoff. Now I'm going back to being very very grateful social media didn't exist when I was young and an idiot.
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