We now reside in a world the place any mistake you make could possibly be vilified on social media. Simply picked up the diesel deal with on the fuel pump by mistake? That’s going up on Twitter. Tried to stroll into the exit doorways at Dealer Joe’s? Could possibly be Instagrammable.

Whereas I’m not one to take a political angle for one thing like this, I do marvel why we care a lot that President Joe Biden doesn’t know the right way to learn a teleprompter. It doesn’t matter what taste of politics you subscribe to, it appears odd that we like to mock folks so typically.

Just lately, Biden learn a speech and he mistakenly stated “finish of quote, repeat the road” which was supposed to be a immediate for him to repeat one thing he stated earlier.

Right here’s one mocking tweet with a video that exhibits the gaffe:

Right here’s one other sarcastic tweet:

It’s humorous, however does it imply all the world order is now going to crumble?

In all probability not.

Is he a complete clown hiding in a three-piece go well with?

Under no circumstances.

I’ve used a teleprompter earlier than, and it’s not at all times simple to maintain up. When you pause or skip over a bit, you’ll be able to shortly get befuddled, and there’s no solution to inform somebody to cease scrolling.

I’m not defending him. Like I stated, I can see the way it appears to be like ridiculous.

What I’m questioning about most is why we bounce on social media so shortly about issues like this. We’re always debating the deserves of our public efficiency, and everyone seems to be in public now. The worst half? There’s at all times an angle. If there’s a press release, or a gaffe, or a tweet, or another public discourse of any form, social media has made it doable to “expose” issues we don’t like or don’t agree with.

Primarily, social media has develop into a condensed type of clickbait to permit us to trumpet our trigger in microscopic doses.

It jogs my memory of how cable information channels began saying “breaking information” so typically that virtually each piece of stories was “breaking” ultimately. Finally, we began tuning out the entire information. (NEWS Reporter not too long ago introduced they received’t do that as typically, thank goodness.)

I’m presently studying a e-book about Watergate and, let’s be trustworthy, that is nothing new. Each minor improvement within the scandal turned fodder for information retailers on the time. What’s modified is that we at the moment are all reporting these incidents to one another. It’s all noise. To maintain up on each scandal or minor improvement, you’d have to remain on social media all day lengthy.

And that’s precisely what we do, and that’s precisely what the social media firms need.

That raises the query about who the actual clowns are.