know how easy it is for me to react in the moment, and repent later.

I held out on cell phones too, until my job made me carry one, because after having to wear a pager which was bad enough, did not want everyone to know they always had immediate access to my attention.

But I won't lose a minutes sleep worrying about whether publicly shaming that scumbag woman who shot the giraffe was right or wrong. Or the POS vet that put an arrow through somebody's pet cat. I realize that an innocent person may occasionally be wrongfully harmed by this practice, but it's going to be with us as long as we have social media, and eventually there will undoubtedly be court cases that will serve to define limits in these instances.

Oh yeah, I'm a firm non believer when it comes to the use of social media. I have relatives who have gotten themselves in deep doodoo because of crap they posted on Facebook. They learned too late that once it's online it never goes away.

until I heard about it from Ronson. His books are great, BTW, humorous and informative. He gets people to tell him the strangest things.
I'm a late adapter like libdem. I feel like I'm conducting a social experiment on myself. Woman signs onto Facebook and internet discussion groups for the first time. I don't altogether like what it's done to me!