[MB.]

Originally Posted by Maru

What is it about social media that makes people go out of their way to check other people's likes & other activities for what their political affiliations are? I'm starting to think the connecting with other people concept is a bit of a scam, that what it often does is enable people to stalk & harass each other... tbh, TiBB has gotten like that too. There never used to be this fixation on accosting folk for not agreeing with each other on their particular views... I remember when there was the interacting and getting to know each other and stuff... now it's I need to know them so I can determine if they're my enemy or not.

I'd say there's a difference between forum members and someone like JK Rowling, who has over 14 million Twitter followers and as such creates 'news' with every tweet she writes, retweets or likes... she's entitled to have her own opinions, write about them and like tweets about them, but once they're out in the open, there's a certain responsibility there that most of us don't carry

[Yuki Maru Hoshi]

Originally Posted by MB.

I'd say there's a difference between forum members and someone like JK Rowling, who has over 14 million Twitter followers and as such creates 'news' with every tweet she writes, retweets or likes... she's entitled to have her own opinions, write about them and like tweets about them, but once they're out in the open, there's a certain responsibility there that most of us don't carry

She's a fiction writer though, not a legislator.

[MB.]

Originally Posted by Maru

She's a fiction writer though, not a legislator.

But regardless, she's still a high profile media figure who would use a platform like Twitter with that in mind... I can't imagine she wouldn't be conscious of the fact that anything she likes/retweets would be construed as an endorsement/reflection of her views, and when something relatively controversial slips through the net, then there would have almost definitely been a reason behind that

[Yuki Maru Hoshi]

Originally Posted by MB.

Liked tweets can appear on the timelines of JK's followers, there's no 'stalking' involved

Originally Posted by MB.

But regardless, she's still a high profile media figure who would use a platform like Twitter with that in mind... I can't imagine she wouldn't be conscious of the fact that anything she likes/retweets would be construed as an endorsement/reflection of her views, and when something relatively controversial slips through the net, then there would have almost definitely been a reason behind that

I'm not going to argue with your opinion. It is your opinion. However, I feel that this is a dangerous reflection of society when we can't have a simple disagreement on things without members of society resorting to mob mentality.

Liked tweets do appear in the feed, but it doesn't always start there. A lot of times it's a retweet and then someone jumps on board with the harassment campaign... and it is absolutely stalking when folk who are energized in this respect go out of their way to comb all media for occurrences of "injustices" in order to begin these campaigns... I often read threads below tweets and a lot of times, it's this type of tit for tat in every single comment and then those turn into stalking where those members go and check those commenter's profiles and go "Hey you like X... you must like X...", etc... I find that to be obsessive... it can't be just comments on the subject itself, it has to be on each other on the personal basis.

[Christmas Lights]

I doubt JK meant any offense . I wish people would calm down ,there's far worse that gets liked and retweeted .

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

I doubt JK meant any offense . I wish people would calm down ,there's far worse that gets liked and retweeted .

well said