Technology certain makes a lot of things easier; include being an idiot. Dr. Jim Taylor talks about how a technology has made it easier to indulge our impulsively bad behaviors. I agree with him in that mistakes and errors in judgment can be magnified with services like Twitter or Facebook.
But I am not so sure that it makes us any dumber or this is a "new age of idiocy". I hate to say it, I think we're all pretty dumb to begin with (or at least capable of doing pretty boneheaded stuff on occasion). It's just that it simply use to be easier to hide it from each other and now no longer the case.
Before email, angrily written letters would sit on a desk until the writer got around to dropping it off at the post office. Maybe upon a bit reflection, they decided to best not send it... smart move? Perhaps... but they still wrote it.
Year 2010, we got instant messaging, videologs, BBM, and prodigious status updates. Plenty of easy-to-use-and-let-the-world-know how you REALLY feel about things.
Hey, if you consider yourself a bit of a hothead, well then simply avoid using Twitter or Facebook, right?
Well, what about those holiday party pictures someone took of you in unflattering contexts? Yes the ones that they did you the favor of uploading them into Facebook and tagged by your "friends" because they thought you were a hoot that night. Yes those pictures.
...and there it is, no one is safe from idiotic moments.
That fact is, we all already act like idiots sometimes, and it's just a matter of time before some tags you. And in this town, where image is everything, I can't wait until we all get tagged doing something stupid. Then maybe then we can all get over it, and move on to more important things.
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