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Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Untrolling Tuesday
So, I'm trying to be more dedicated to blogging, which means not waiting until I have something well thought out to say and shooting from the hip (if you'll pardon the firearms metaphor in this context).
One half-baked idea I had recently was something minor that could be done to help make Twitter a bit more friendly. I'm not sure where/when it occurred to me, and it's not exactly original, but a couple of weeks ago, I tried an experiment in "untrolling."
Of course, "trolling" is the art/habit/addiction of saying snarky, mean-spirited, critical things to people on social media in an attempt to get a rise out of them and/or to simply vent one's spleen. Anyone who's reading a blog post like this is no doubt familiar with this. Many of us, yours truly included, have done it ourselves.
Labels:
internet,
social media,
troll,
trolling,
twitter,
untrolling
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