Comments on: Hate 2.0 – Does Social Media Bring Us Together OR Tear Us Apart? http://www.leilimckinley.com/social-media/hate-20-does-social-media-bring-us-together-or-tear-us-apart/ Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:24:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: jkurup http://www.leilimckinley.com/social-media/hate-20-does-social-media-bring-us-together-or-tear-us-apart/comment-page-1/#comment-212 jkurup Mon, 18 May 2009 18:09:00 +0000 http://www.leilimckinley.com/?p=204#comment-212 Social media is somewhat different from traditional forms of communication. It is faster, reaches out to a lot more people at one time and remians there for a long time. But at the end of the day, it communicates. And to that extent it is a potent mean of interaction. What you see as hate messages are simply a reflection of the day and age we are in. In a way, posting these messages on Facebook and other social networking sites allows the authors some means of expression that may even prove cathartic. It is the ones who bottle it up that actually go out and shoot classmates or stalk single women and kill them and so on. One way of countering it is to post moderate messages back to them. May work in some of the cases and you may be able to purge the hate. Social media is somewhat different from traditional forms of communication. It is faster, reaches out to a lot more people at one time and remians there for a long time. But at the end of the day, it communicates. And to that extent it is a potent mean of interaction. What you see as hate messages are simply a reflection of the day and age we are in.

In a way, posting these messages on Facebook and other social networking sites allows the authors some means of expression that may even prove cathartic. It is the ones who bottle it up that actually go out and shoot classmates or stalk single women and kill them and so on.

One way of countering it is to post moderate messages back to them. May work in some of the cases and you may be able to purge the hate.

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