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’m not comfortable with it either. There’s a lot of room for reasonable debate but this stuff usually ends up getting split down partisan lines and the quality of debate declines rapidly. For better or worse this flash mob/viral social media tactic works because companies are risk adverse. If it hurts sales then the problem needs to go away. I guess my main concern is I’m not comfortable with PR agencies, car maunfacturers and mattress companies deciding what their employees can say when off work or which radio shows can be heard on the radio. I don’t like them having that power.