- After one of her tweets blew up she was “exhilarated” by all the interaction she was getting. Good or bad. She said “she loved that twitter let her talk to large numbers of people with the filter of a journalist.” (Chen 4) At the beginning, social media only increased her religious beliefs. But, that didn’t last for long. She started to learn more about the people that she had often disagreed with and found that they were regular human beings just like her.
- . This church had very extreme beliefs ranging from God hating gay people to even celebrating when people died that didn’t hold the same beliefs as them. Phelp Roper can be quoted saying “I wanted to be good, and I wanted to be obedient, and I wanted to be the object of my parents’ pride. I wanted to go to Heaven.” (Chen 8) She thought that being “good” meant to hate everyone else that did not believe in what she believed in.
- One of the first times we see a shift in perspective from her is when an actress died at a pretty young age. Her younger self wouldn’t think twice of posting a tweet thanking God for her death. But this time was different. She said she would feel like “such a jackass to go on and post something like that.” (Chen 16) She thought this was because she was seeing tons of grief on twitter from the people she had been interacting with.
