Reflections on the online mob

Dogpiling on social media is now the norm. Empathy be damned.

I really never learn. Every few months or so, I get dogpiled on Twitter by one particular political group or another. The last couple of times, it got so bad I ended up trending. Oscar Wilde said that “there is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about”. But as far as I’m aware he didn’t have a Twitter acco…