{"id":10100,"date":"2011-07-01T11:40:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T15:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10100"},"modified":"2011-07-01T11:40:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T15:40:39","slug":"guardian-contributer-learns-not-to-confuse-sociopathy-with-social-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/01\/guardian-contributer-learns-not-to-confuse-sociopathy-with-social-network\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Guardian<\/em> contributer learns not to confuse &#8220;sociopathy&#8221; with &#8220;social network&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/willheaven\/100094875\/meet-the-guardian-contributor-who-smiles-when-gap-year-travellers-are-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kia Abdullah<\/a> will think twice before letting her inner sociopath out on Twitter in future:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the early hours of Tuesday morning, three young British men were killed in a bus crash in Thailand, just days after starting their gap year travels. A deeply tragic case &mdash; and one that will have left many British parents sick with worry. Annually about 100,000 young Brits take gap years.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s a Twitter reaction from Kia Abdullah, a Guardian contributor:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Kia_Abdullah_sociopathic_tweets.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kia_Abdullah_sociopathic_tweets\" width=\"460\" height=\"162\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Kia_Abdullah_sociopathic_tweets.jpg 460w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Kia_Abdullah_sociopathic_tweets-150x52.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Even if you <em>think<\/em> this sort of thing, sending it out immediately over Facebook or Twitter is just asking for a landslide of public abuse to land on your head. People who work in media have the least excuse for this kind of absent-minded <em>faux pas<\/em>, as they often pounce on celebrity or politician errors of exactly this sort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kia Abdullah will think twice before letting her inner sociopath out on Twitter in future: In the early hours of Tuesday morning, three young British men were killed in a bus crash in Thailand, just days after starting their gap year travels. A deeply tragic case &mdash; and one that will have left many British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,15],"tags":[213,593,657,202,310],"class_list":["post-10100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","category-technology","tag-newspapers","tag-socialmedia","tag-thailand","tag-travel","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2CU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10103,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100\/revisions\/10103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}