The Mob Mentality, Lara Logan, and Twitter

Not a mob in Egypt. But still: Same idea.

The first three things you learn in high-school sociology are:

A. Sociology is the study of people in groups.
B. The more people in a group, the more powerful the group.
C. The more people in a group, the worse the decision-making abilities (or collective intelligence) of the group will become.

There are few places better equipped to learn that lesson firsthand than high school. Or the Internet. But for all the praise social networks have received after helping enable the people of Egypt to change their country's destiny, we're missing something. There's still an aspect of Twitter just as dark as the "dangerous element" that put Lara Logan in harm's way recently: The Mob Mentality.

Source: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/lara-logan-twitter-5246394?src=rss

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