Something that's bothered me lately is the way social media is being used, or abused, to shame people and effect their daily lives. I think it's nothing more than bullies embracing a gang mentality. Here's an article that covers two sides of this well:
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechc...harlottesville
I agree with Wills, this shaming seems in too many cases to be blindly tossed around just because someone may have done or said something someone else doesn't like.David Clinton Wills, a visiting professor at NYU who follows social media, says he's troubled by the way that anti-racist activists are using Twitter. "Never in my lifetime did I remotely think I would vaguely defend the rights of a possibly very hateful person," says Wills, who is black and Jewish.
Nonetheless, he says "it scares me to call that activism because it seems more like a certain condemnation and a certain judgement that ironically flies in the face of democracy itself."
Wills sees a lynch mob mentality on both the left and the right when they try to use social media to shame people.