I'm Worse than a Gossip

Pressing "enter" is the fastest way to forget that you're talking about a person. Almost everything I write about has a person in mind. Sometimes that means I'm quoting a friend or referencing a conversation, but more often than not, it means I'm writing about someone behind their back. On Twitter, this is called subtweeting: tweeting about something someone else has tweeted without tagging them or otherwise speaking directly to them. I do this a lot because, as my wife would tell you, I'm always on a tirade of some sort . It's rare for me to have an opinion I'm not willing to draw blood over. And for some reason, I've always thought it was more respectful to do this rather than talk to the person. Perhaps I had bought into the lie that what they don't know can't hurt them. But I was borrowing trouble thinking that something so public could never make it back to the target. That's what subtweeting does. It turns people into