WIGJam - Bottom of the Barrel

I find that remark a bit unsettling. The entire premise of social media is to facilitate open communication between people who might otherwise have never encountered one another in physical life. It follows logically that the only sensible implementation of the device requires a certain humility that one adopts whenever one "leaves home". Traveling in a distant land, one does not know the customs, but one can learn from how one is treated what is deemed to be appropriate to others. Fundamentally, the same basic instincts and values drive all human correspondences; I should know, having interacted with developers from seven different countries in only the last week, and myself having emigrated to the United States from a crumbling country. An "opener" is never enough to establish someone as being objectively disturbing, for it is either all too familiar, with little hope or imperative to reform rather than to accept, or it is so alien that its origins can only be contextualized well after the fact. All in all, I recommend an attitude of Openness to all social interactions online, until caution is warranted a posteriori. it's the only way to TRULY have a chance at "being right" instead of coming off as self-entitled or privileged, though let us not forget the extremely warm feeling which comes from a rare and unexpected visit from a mysterious stranger!!

Lin Ji.

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