Remarkably, the original point of discussion on a social media site is always lost in the heat of the labyrinthine arguments. Digression is the bane, and logic the first casualty, in any heated discussion on a social media site. It is remarkable that the original point of discussion is always lost in the heat of the labyrinthine arguments. I say the first casualty because the social-site friendship is the next, if the discussion is not stopped early enough. While tiny tweets have launched major wars of words, many a WhatsApp group has been broken and numerous Facebook friends ‘un-friended’ since the beginning of the social-site era.
Source: The Hindu June 27, 2016 19:07 UTC