Taking a Pause to Ponder for a Bit...
No Imprudence Filter
Posted Oct 8th, 2009 at 11:45 AM by Lucid Chaotic
I co-presented at a conference yesterday where we had a very good audience turnout – especially considering that we were presenting hard-core research to practitioners who we thought might not have been interested in that type of presentation in the first place. We had about 40 people in the audience which was an exceptionally good turnout at a large conference with 10 to 12 concurrent sessions going on.
Anyways, the presentation went well, we had a few insightful questions from the audience at the end which we responded to.
After coming home, I decided to check twitter, and sure enough, there were 7 or 8 people who had tweeted about our presentation. Almost all comments were positive and people really liked our take-aways. However, there was this one guy who kept trashing the presentation because his own experience with the subject matter (that we were presenting on) was rather bleak, and it was obvious that he was making some false assumptions about our research.
After commenting back and forth with him for a bit, he was able to see some light and apologized for the rather over-zealous comments on his part.
It just irks me to no end that people can now use social media tools to publicly voice their unfounded and baseless comments. He could easily have talked to us about the same issues after our presentation to get some clarifications, but no, instead, he decided to go slapdash and confront everything positive that others found with our presentation. I wish there were an imprudence filter for social media.
Anyways, the presentation went well, we had a few insightful questions from the audience at the end which we responded to.
After coming home, I decided to check twitter, and sure enough, there were 7 or 8 people who had tweeted about our presentation. Almost all comments were positive and people really liked our take-aways. However, there was this one guy who kept trashing the presentation because his own experience with the subject matter (that we were presenting on) was rather bleak, and it was obvious that he was making some false assumptions about our research.
After commenting back and forth with him for a bit, he was able to see some light and apologized for the rather over-zealous comments on his part.
It just irks me to no end that people can now use social media tools to publicly voice their unfounded and baseless comments. He could easily have talked to us about the same issues after our presentation to get some clarifications, but no, instead, he decided to go slapdash and confront everything positive that others found with our presentation. I wish there were an imprudence filter for social media.
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1. This is the internet, where people actually do think out aloud.
2. This is a self correcting system. There is no imprudence filter but there definitely is a reactive mechanism in place to correct any incorrect facts and opinions: Internet users themselves i.e. us.Posted Oct 8th, 2009 at 12:01 PM by Cheegum
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^ Cheegs, I don't mind criticisms, but it's the unfounded/basless attacks and denigration that irk me. "Thinking out" loud is okay too as long as you don't confront other people and try to impose your unfounded opinions upon them.Posted Oct 8th, 2009 at 12:20 PM by Lucid Chaotic
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I hate ppl who call them selves intellectuals and yet have such strong ego around their learning process. I would not have responded to that guy. But I am not the smartest person. he he
good job LC.. like always!!Posted Oct 8th, 2009 at 02:38 PM by Monk
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Exactly what LC bhai said.. it's good to be vocal but useless banter is annoying!Posted Oct 8th, 2009 at 04:10 PM by Gina~
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