And when I mean “social media,” I mean Twitter specifically because that is where my latest obsession has landed me.
Social media has been a mixed blessing. Since the inauguration of forums and blogs in the 80s and 90s and cheap, available internet in the 2000s, everyone had the ability to become their own publisher and editor. This meant anyone with an idea or opinion could express it at…
I have often wondered what makes a troll and what motivates them ever since one commented on one of my musings on a Youtube video. When you try responding to them in a calm, equitable manner, they respond with churlishness, vanity, arrogance…
Just recently, yesterday in fact, I read an article written by Lewis Wallace about being trans* in the workplace. He specified he was “transgender and transsexual and androgynous and passes sometimes as a (young) boy,” but he usually is read as female. Wow. That is quite a…