Another post from my old blog, Compassionate Asshole.
Original Posting -08/19/12
Anton Browne once stated, ‘The way I see it, Twitter is like a big cocktail party.’ This was right before he closed his account there.
There is more to his story but it does show what social networking really is or at least what it can become. Insert the name ‘Facebook’ or your former high school forum name and you basically have the same thing; one gigantic electronic, 24hour, 365day cocktail party. The beauty, or the ugliness of it all is that now all social interaction, because of this newfangled medium called the Internet, is instantaneous. Instead of having private conversations where connoted inflections are heard and discourse can be entertained, everything now is taken as denotative; what you say is electronically inked with a permanent marker. With a real cocktail party there is an end but here you can be ‘onstage’ all the time. And you best develop a thick skin if you don’t already have one because once you are on the Internet, you’re not in Kansas anymore. The Internet is one big, fast paced gut checker. Gilda, the Good Witch of the North, will not be around to entice you to click your heels together when things get tough.