Miscommunication in the Internet

While reading Neil Postman's book, Amusing ourselves to death I have tried to apply his thoughts and reasonings to todays time in an attempt to criticize his view points in how they don't endure against the reality of time. But to be honest, they do stay true in modern times and I will be applying his reasonings to the new type of "metaphor" which is the internet, specifically Twitter. The first problem with twitter is its ability to post things instantly for anyone to see. What this does to peoples actions negatively impacts the way they type their statements. When communicating with the internet becomes just as easy and convenient as communicating with language, people start to blend the two together, which is not good at all when discussing sensitive topics. This is because the two are completely different in sending their "truths"; and as Postman puts it, different types of media have their own way of portraying truth. Oral communication requires expression and context of the situation to reveal its truths, whereas the literate truth relies upon the fact that it is expected to be criticized by the world and it is always publicly available. When these two truths are mixed together in the form of a text, or post, it leaves people with the impression that what they say on the internet is set in stone and a clear representation of who they are even when the person posting intended for it to be a more casual thought. And even when a post is perceived as casual thought, it becomes riddled with expressions, but no context to support those expressions. This is easiest to explain when in the context of comedy, many people have tried (and failed) to post a statement in a comical sense because it is convenient and quick to do so with the internet. This leaves us with many people being hated for tweeting something simply because it was not perceived as a joke. This might not seem to be much of an issue especially when talking about a joke, but because of the mass miscommunication when going from casual speech to text, many people have lost there jobs and livelihoods because of these things. This issue have even got a name for itself, called "cancel culture" and I believe the root of this movement has much to do with the new media of the internet and how it is the melting pot of communication.