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cantankerous on March 5, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life

On the flip side, you're not supposed to get involved in everything that's going on around you just because it's going on. It's pretty easy to mistakenly thunder in on a half-heard conversation without any context.

stavros on March 5, 2015 [–]

Definitely, there's a balance there. That does mean that the GP post of "wasn't supposed to do it" isn't always right.

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