"It was also an example of how Twitter reinforces the tendency of adults to behave like high school students, passing rude notes, spreading exaggerated rumors and obsessing endlessly — and pointlessly — about who said what mean thing about whom."
Behaving badly online. The only qualm I have reposting this quote is that high schoolers often aren’t nearly as bad as the most vitriolic adults.
From A Tweet Unleashes Vitriol on a User in Britain (NYTimes).
