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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The shooting of a reporter and cameraman Wednesday morning played out for the world to see over social media. Hours after Alison Parker and Adam Ward were shot and killed, the shooter, Vester Flanagan, took to Twitter and Facebook. "There are so many uncharted waters with social media and this is…
It's not surprising that an outpouring of emotion of all kinds should flow across social media. It represents the 'social pulse' of society. While not always pretty to look at, it lets us see what's going on in a gritty and unfiltered way. Raw emotions of concern, caring, outrage and defiance all show. Social media didn't invent the human experience of emotion, so it begs the question, where were all these emotions being expressed or repressed before?