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The discussions on this post are awesome. So many are judging this is moral terms and from every perspective imaginable.

The two most prevalent are:

     "The fight was in public, the world has changed, I have no sympathy"
     "I would never live-tweet such a subject, that's an evil invasion of privacy"

We're given amazing tools to interact with others and culture has not advanced as quickly as technology has. Our interactions with other human beings are (and I apologise for the metaphor in advance), like services interacting with other services on a network. Sometimes one service breaks another by accident.

We're connected to everyone else in a different way today than we were 5 years ago (and 5 years ago I would have said 10 years ago). I could see myself over-sharing this sort of thing because it's unusual and because I have a twitter account and a device that sits in my hand and I don't know that my brain would have thought of much more than "this is unusual" (it helps that I have no twitter followers). I've also been in relationships where something like this could happen and wouldn't want someone to broadcast it.

I think the future is going to be a hard lesson in "give everyone the benefit of the doubt".

[Confusion]

Heidegger (and fellow philosophers) predicted this decades ago (and it has been taking place for decades). His "The Question Concerning Technology" (Die Frage nach der Technik) foresees how technology increasingly demands our attention and changes us through what it enables, when even mass television did not yet exist.