re: #17 ObserverArt

I don’t care about Justine either. But, there is a decent point to be made with one aspect of that article on her apology. The time she was in the air after her tweet until she landed is unique to the ‘net social world. As the article is basically saying, she was judged and jury-ed in record time by the social media.

The could be some good in that. There just might be a whole lotta bad in it too.

It’s like the world is one giant Roman Colosseum and the audience gets to view the victim from all over and render a thumbs-up or thumbs-down on that victim without ever being seen, without a fight. And in hours. Unprecedented.

Next step is for people to start to set enemies/adversaries/competition up, get the new ‘net Colosseum to thumbs-down and the results may never get to be changed even if the person never triggered anything to cause it all. Even if the person has absolutely no idea it is going on.

It just feels weird to me. Others?

I was away from my computer for most of the time when it was all transpiring. I had to Google her name to find out what the hell was up.

My first thought was ‘Jesus, what an idiot.’ My second thought is that people have to learn how to self-censor before they tweet anything.

She seemed very sincere in her apology. But you have to wonder - had she just taken a few seconds to actually read that tweet and considered what she was saying, would she have actually let it fly?