EAST LANSING – Tyler O’Connor is fair game for criticism. He is the starting quarterback at a Big Ten university. He’s 22 years old, a grown man. A public figure.
He is also a person. One whose only public sin is being a flawed QB.
If you read his mentions on Twitter, you’d think he also spent Saturday night kicking puppies.
Twitter can be an awesome tool — a real-time newsfeed, a way to communicate across worlds, a place for ideas, for community, for criticism, for entertainment, for procrastination.
It’s also a nest for tools — angry people who lack civility and jerks who are otherwise ignored in life.