21 Quotes by Willow Bay

With a click of the Post Comment button, Netizens can quickly bring down the level of dialogue. Bloggers lob zingers, commenters trade barbs, and bullies target kids in the cyber schoolyard. Mudslinging – a time-honored political tradition – thrives on the Web.

New forms of media – first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet – tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.

I know it’s very ‘old media’ of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.