Again and again journalists in the USA lose their jobs after Twitter accidents. But how do you behave properly on Facebook, Tiktok and other networks? And are etiquette rules like those of the New York Times and the Guardian useful?
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Andrian Kreye
In keeping with the nature of social media, this story about Twitter and journalism naturally begins with me, me, me. It was originally “me” in capital letters, but you have to dose the self-portrayal well, so with the self-irony, with which self-adulation is broken on Twitter, the allusion to Mimimi. So this text begins with the story of my thumb. It’s quite big. As a result, when reading a troll shop’s tirade against a valued colleague, that thumb accidentally nudged the heart when calling up the text. And whoops, the troll text was marked with the universal affection cipher. by name. Contrary to the first internet rule: never feed trolls.