tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post3627900154991737568..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Social Media As Small TownAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-91633718415176904472018-12-10T13:16:56.787-05:002018-12-10T13:16:56.787-05:00I've never been on Twitter, but I think a simi...I've never been on Twitter, but I think a similar experience is found in an open comments section on someone else's blog, a large free-wheeling type with a lot of sharp-tongued participants. I notice that I can get a lot nastier in that context than on, say, Facebook, where I'm posting under my own name on a site frequented by a lot of friends, neighbors, and relatives.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-20328552794918048812018-12-10T02:02:40.781-05:002018-12-10T02:02:40.781-05:00There's some limitation to small town meanness...There's some limitation to small town meanness that is missing in global social media. You are going to have to live with those people, and your gossip might have made you an enemy of a cousin or sibling of the target. As a new person in town you're also instantly recognizable in a way as being Not From Here, You don't know what the locals know, and it shows.<br /><br />The vast majority of people in those social media mobs have never seen the victim before, and won't see them or anybody connected to them again. Very unlike a small town.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.com