Status update systems with its limited character allocation will never be able to tell the whole story. To react to it strongly without understanding its context is like making omellete in a microwave oven.
I believe that in this day and age, where self-publishing is within anyone's grasp we are losing the concept of context. We have a lot of "writers" who quote and publish to wide audience faster than anyone can say "verify facts/context & proofread."
Responsible journalism is losing the battle of "publish or perish" - with the seemingly steady decline of worthwhile article and increase of man's arrogance to grasp the events unfolding before him, we will all end up reading a strongly biased, agenda filled, and profit-based write-ups which won't even qualify as a good draft.
I will strive to be better. To be sensitive to contexts, to not be arrogant at presumming I understand the world around me through someone's 2-6 line status update, blogpost, or quotations, and to not blindly follow the crowd without weighing each cost and understanding the cause.
You'd need to forgive me if I am inarticulate of all the things that I want to say here. I'm not a writer and sometimes even I don't understand what I'm saying.
I know that I can not change the world but I can change the way how I look at it and how I act. Remember an old adage, "think before you act."
