This story was commissioned for Slate Magazine's Future Tense project. It's a pretty straight-line projection of how intense trolling is going to get in the future, focusing on a mass shooting victim's family where the mother decides to go public and try to change things. Seems like a much more intense version of what we do today, and much more intensely ignored.
I don't think we're going to go in a straight line. We are going to adjust to how social media works and put it in its place--I think ordinary people are already moving in this direction. The terminally outraged will become more so, though and that is going to lead to more trouble and pain.
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