Twitter vs Reality vs personal attacks
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 10:22AM Hello all,
As an avid twitter user, I try to follow a wide range of people, from conservative to liberal, and from non-political to hyper-political. Often times there will be a spirited back and forth, especially with those who hold differing political views than I do.
However, when does a spirited exchange cross the line, and what are the consequences?
1. Repeated rejection of reality. Examples: human activity does not cause global warming, social security is broke, 9-11 was an inside job, NATO is bombing innocent Libyan civilians because it is racist/oil-grabbing. CONSEQUENCES: I will cease to respond. If the activity continues, I may un-follow.
2. Repeated rejection of reality followed up by ad-hominem personal attacks. Examples: @spiritofmadison termed me evil and cold hearted because I wished to make some minor fixes to the social security system. CONSEQUENCES: blocked.
I suspect my unfollowing activity might increase as hysterical and extremist political tweets multiply as we get closer to the 2012 general election. Disclaimer: I am an equal opportunity unfollower and blocker. Extreme non-sense and personal attack from the far left or far right get the same response.
See you on the tweeter!
Daryl Northrop
Reader Comments (3)
Daryl
You will block people? On a blog that no one watches?
Seriously Dude. No one cares. Sorry if it is such a blow to your ego but let me restate
No one cares
I check here from time to time out of boredom
FGM-
I don't block people on this site - unless someone has a scorchingly racist comment (which hasn't happened yet, thankfully). I was referring to blocking people on Twitter, for what it's worth. Thanks for reading, and I hope I alleviate some of your boredom ;-)
i went to the same school as patrick. i remeber those girls from my school who wrote in. they were white trash...i always felt so bad for them. joxkzz joxkzz - bieber supra.