Norman Parke needs to stay off of Twitter before he gets himself in a fight he can't win.
Generally, the view that I've had on Twitter is if you're on Twitter, you're in, like, the meme - you're in meme war land. If you're on Twitter, you're in the arena. And so, essentially, if you attack me, it is therefore OK for me to attack back.
There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
If someone annoys you on Twitter, and they only have three friends, retweet it, then block them.
If you don't know what Gamergate is, my God, do I envy you.
Every time we walk on to the field of battle and the field of battle is the internet, it doesn't matter if we shoot our opponents a hundred times and hit every time. As long as they've hit us once, we've lost, because the U.S. is so much more reliant on those systems.
The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.
When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.
You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it's not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there's been human beings.
The truth is that the performative nature of social media can turn even the simplest conversations into a WWE style cage match with emojis and Internet slang taking the place of pratfalls and over the top costumes.
I don't do fights on Twitter.
Mostly, I stay out of social media conversations. But sometimes, they hunt me down and shoot at me anyway!
There's definitely something about the impact of social media in terms of people being able to go from slightly angry with each other to 'fight' very quickly.
The Internet is a big place where a lot of people can voice their opinions, and my mother chooses to pick fights with random people from all over the world who don't have the nicest things to say about me.
Who needs soap operas now when we have social media timelines? Now you can get a similar drama fix by just paying attention to your friends and family members' Facebook pages.
However revolutionary it may be, the Internet still hasn't altered the basic law of human communication: Being nice to your interlocutors is a good way to start any negotiations, particularly, when being hostile is an open invitation for a cyber-fight.
