Should you be able to edit your posts, shares, status updates and comments on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+? Some sites such as Twitter don’t allow you to do that, while others such as Google+ and Tumblr let you edit them. The flexibility of edit is nice to have but there may also be reasons for not allowing it. Facebook didn’t allow post edits, but it introduced comment edits on posts. And in Sep. 2013 it added post/update edits.
Let’s take a closer look at this topic. In one extreme there is regular blog, which of course requires flexibility in editing. I go over tens of revisions on every post in any of the four blogs that I write.