Social Media and Moral Outrage

Justine is a woman I’ve never met. She has a decent job in PR. Well, as decent as a PR job can be. She has a small Twitter audience: just over 160 others follow her. Her Twitter profile is fairly average, a few complaints, an odd banal comment, a few jokes. Jokes can be the end of you. Especially if they’re not funny, or not funny to some, or untimely, or just not very well constructed. That’s why stand-up would be terrifying. I couldn’t imagine doing stand-up. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the only thing worse than getting laughed at would be not getting laughed at.