Be careful what you tweet about – I recently learnt that the hard way

A Buddhist took exception to my social media moan and, after a brief altercation, actually swore at me, which I felt rather proud of, writes Jenny Eclair

‘This tweet garnered more reaction than I expected’ (AP)

I shouldn’t have done it. It was a lazy, off-the-cuff comment that wasn’t designed to attract much attention. I simply tweeted: “I am so bored of going for a walk, so f***ing bored.”

And that day I was. I was sick of the dull weather, combined with the local walk that my partner and I feel obliged to make daily; the trot around the familiar block, which – when we’re both working – is all we have time for.

However, this tweet weirdly garnered more reaction than I expected – more than 12,000 likes and almost 600 comments.