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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Absolutely but it appears we live in an age where people are fueled by outrage. Seems like nobody is happy unless they are unhappy about someone else's behavior. Crazy times and I hope this outrage culture is just a phase that we can move past and learn from as it seems like it would be a miserable existence over the course of decades.
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It's only very small numbers of people who do get outraged on this social media stuff, though. Often only a few hundred or thousand. The problem is we don't know how to put numbers into context with the size of our social networks. So instead of shrugging off the outrage of 2,000 people out of an audience or 20 million (0.1 per cent), act as though we have to respond. We can can ignore anything that angers fewer than about 40,000 or 50,000 people, and the world won't end.
But we don't. We let our public dialog be dictated by tiny numbers of people. I'm guessing at some point most people are just going to turn it off, and confine their media network to small, narrowly focused interests and ignore everything else.