Et tu, Facebook?
I was going to write about a confrontation I had at the gym today, involving a spin class and what one perceived as a slight and I perceived as my preference - but that took a back seat to something that happened recently involving my favorite social interaction, Facebook. George Carlin did a bit about how being an asshole was relative to the distance. Someone on TV was really AN ASSHOLE. The guy in the car who cut you off is An Asshole, and the one next to you in line was [whispering] pretty much of an asshole. Distance is a great defender. Such is the case with the Internet. In this environment, we can comment, tweak or otherwise say things that we wouldn't normally say to people to their face. It's a great insulator. Even when we have a named sign-in and people know us (like on Facebook) we feel free to stop over, pick fights and leave. Likewise, our posts on Facebook and Twitter can be dissected and analyzed to the exte...