You’ve Got It All Wrong!
Should I correct blatantly wrong info my friends post to Facebook?
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, at 11:13 AM
This week, Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe debate the question: Should you correct the bad facts and blatant lies that friends post to their Facebook pages?
What's your opinion about this week's manners dilemma?
Send us your questions about etiquette dilemmas posed by new technology. Our email address is digitalmanners@slate.com.
You can also read a transcript of this episode.
You can play any episode of Manners for the Digital Age using the player below:
You'll find previous episode pages here.
And please check out all of Slate’s other podcasts here.
Podcast produced by Melonyce McAfee.
Who Said It: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford or Simpsons Mayor Diamond Joe Quimby?
Is Wal-Mart in Trouble? Is Amazon to Blame?
Is Your State Bird a Stupid State Bird? What It Should Be Instead.
Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society. You can email him at farhad.manjoo@slate.com and follow him on Twitter.
Emily Yoffe is a regular Slate contributor. She writes the Dear Prudence and Human Guinea Pig columns. You can send Dear Prudence questions for publication to prudence@slate.com. (Questions may be edited.) Subscribe to Emily Yoffe's Facebook page.