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Hok Talk: An Epidemic of Ugly Tweets

Social media exists for the sole purpose of sharing our thoughts. Sometimes those thoughts are as mundane as what we had for dinner, last night. Sometimes they are as touching as a baby’s first birthday party. And sometimes they are far, far darker.

Josh Hader says some misogynistic things.

Social media is barely in its infancy, by the standards of human existence. Facebook is not even 15 years old, yet. When I was a teenager, Xanga blogs were all the rage amongst my peers and myself. Xanga started in 1999; less than 20 years ago.