WakeandBake
Well-known member
If you choose to follow somebody on Twitter, you are following their life. What's the difference between that and friending somebody on Facebook who also posts shit about their day to day life? That he is a public figure does not matter. Twitter gives these fools the option to connect with famous people, to be cyber jock sniffers. That doesn't give them the right to be asshats. Somebody handing out flyers about his life is just a fucking weirdo.
I'm afraid that the internet absolutely gives people the forum to be asshats, and there is no difference in the FB scenario you mentioned. What these guys did was shitty and despicable, I have agreed all along. But what the fuck was Schilling expecting from the goddamned internet?
I am mystified by people thinking the internet is anything more high-minded than the wild West. Think of the sleaziest place you have ever been. It's that x10. There are some great things on the internet and I love it, but I just go ahead and assume that the lowest of the lowest characters in the world are who reads and sees everything I do on the internet, and then I go from there.
So if I were to get a twitter account and a bunch of people I have never met start following me and I post that my daughter did ANYTHING, I would expect as least one poster to say "yeh I fucked her" or something shitty. And when they did, I would be a big boy and and take it and learn a valuable lesson about the internet.