map colon

I'm getting a tad fed up with having to press <shift> for colon
commands.

I have seen this suggested:
map ; :

But someone commented: "Don't map ":" to anything, it's a bad idea! "

Not sure why?
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Best Regards,
Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz, Scotland

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