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Even if her Tweet was uninformed, it's still not a nice thing to say. One of the big problems with social media is that people have very different standards abo
by vlunkr 8y ago
Even if her Tweet was uninformed, it's still not a nice thing to say. One of the big problems with social media is that people have very different standards about what they will say on the internet vs. real life. It wouldn't have happened if she hadn't decided to be a jerk to someone she didn't know.
- isoskeles 8y agoPeople are sarcastic in real life too. “Want a medal?” is usually harmless.
- fnordsensei 8y agoTo people you know and have an understanding with, it might be no problem. To people you don't know, it'll come across as pretty hostile.
- isoskeles 8y agoYeah, I'm trying to pick through all the situations where it would bother me. In my imagination, it is limited to (1) if this happened at work (to me or to someone else), I'd see it as toxic or (2) if it happened on the internet, as it did, and it was someone I knew who did it. And in the second case, it's more of a feeling of disappointment. "I know you're better than this, why are you wasting your time being mean to strangers on the internet?" But I can't quite put myself into the mood of getting angry at them and trying to bully them into deleting their account or even getting them fired from a job. I'm trying to understand that.
- moate 8y agoSure, but it's also not nice or polite. "I'm just sarcastic, I'm just having fun" is a great way to dismiss someone else's feelings when they're actually not happy with your chosen mode of mild meanness. Speak however you want, but as always people can label you a jerk for anything you want no matter how little offense you intended by it. It's a design flaw in language that's impossible to eliminate.
- majormajor 8y agoWould you drop a sarcastic comment into someone else's conversation in a public space? The main lesson here, as always, is don't tweet... it's a context-less shitshow.
- slededit 8y agoI've seen it done. Sometimes justified sometimes not, but in no case was either party relentlessly hounded after the immediate incident.
- shkkmo 8y agoObviously it was not a nice thing to say. It was dealt with appropriately by the child's mother. The twitter mob accomplished nothing besides more people being jerks.
- vlunkr 8y agoYeah I'm not saying they are in the right either. Twitter (and other social media) is an endless recursion of poor decisions.