Would you really want to know what people are up to every single minute of the day?

This week one council decided to hold a 24-hour tweetathon via the social networking website, broadcasting details of the work the council does in a typical day.

Now, I know other organisations have done this and you would think it would make for good reading.

Well, the police force should give you some insight.

But does anyone really care about a council?

For much of the time there is going to be a lot of mundane stuff going on.

Those tweets from a typical council meeting are going to be riveting stuff.

The point is, have we become so obsessed with information that we find more ways to extract it from people?

Are there really going to be residents sitting down going through all the tweets to see if their money is being spent properly?

Do people really have that much time on their hands?

Hey, I love the idea of accountability but it is kind of getting a little too much.

The more I read the less I wish I had.

The more ways I am told I can find out information, the more I get annoyed that most of it is useless and won’t make much difference to the world I’m living in.

Unless you want to put a secret CCTV up in Downing Street when the President visits or a live feed of the Duke of Edinburgh watching Eastenders – I’m not interested.

I still find it strange how people are willing to share their pointless thoughts on places like Twitter and Facebook.

I scroll through these thoughts every so often and find most people talking about what they have eaten and where they have been.

None of it makes any difference and I realise then why I don’t talk to those people in the first place.

And I want to press the ‘like’ button but I dare not in case they think I care.