Educating Twitter: Correcting Fergie Jenkins

I think we all know that the idea behind social media was far, far better than the execution.

At first it was a great way to keep in touch with people, share photos of your kids or vacations, connect with folks who have similar interests, find news quickly, and so on. That’s a pretty good idea.

Of course, like most good ideas, this one was eventually taken too far. Those initial intentions soon devolved into trolling, and bots, and endless advertisements, and harassment, and federal investigations, and on and on. I believe the term “hellscape” has been used to describe much of social media, and I wouldn’t necessarily argue with that.

But some of those more pure intentions still break through from time to time, even when dealing with celebrities. Yes, being able to interact with a famous person you admire is fraught with the possibility of disappointment. But often those celebrities turn out to be funny, and nice, and everything you’d hope they would be, and social media gives them the platform to show that broadly.

That’s the case with Fergie Jenkins.