by forwardslash

Last year, at a low point in my life, I did something I’m still utterly ashamed of. When I tell you, please understand, I was upset at the time. Emotions were running high.

O.K. — deep breath — last year I got into an argument with a group of people on Twitter about Trayvon Martin, which was the main news story of that time.

I know, how could I be so stupid? To think that I could have a constructive conversation about something on social media. Luckily, my part in the Twitter fight didn’t last long. A friend saw my tweets and instantly sent me the text message: “ABORT! ABORT! ABORT!”

This is another notch in my on-going hypothesis that social media is terrible for discussion.