Fr Silouan ThompsonThis infographic was posted several years ago by my friend Stan Patton. Social media discussions tend to become almost completely devoid of usable information, exchange of thoughts, or profitable personal conversations. Here is part of the reason why:
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My approach to “debate” on, let’s say, Facebook, is to write a detailed, thoughtful post, and leave it. Ignore all replies, don’t even read or interact with them. Anything past this initial saying-my-piece just tends to take up massive volumes of time, emotions flare, and ever-diminishing returns.
Getting stuck in an endless back-and-forth debate where the last person still writing retorts declares himself the winner is just dumb.
(Of course, this is completely different from a formal, moderated debate, a thing in which I have no interest nor experience. I’m purely talking about spontaneous internet conflict, which I think this graphic has in mind.)