Post-Water-Cooler TV? Not Yet: The Real World Still Trumps Twitter

Most talk about TV is still face-to-face… which gives us time to work on our online etiquette

Where do you have your best talks about TV? On Twitter or Facebook? Or live, face-to-face?

Your real-world interactions may make you feel hopelessly out of date. But you aren't, not yet. The overwhelming majority of conversations about TV – and perhaps even conversations about other things – still take place in the real world.

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A New York Times story Sunday drew together six showrunners to talk about "Post-Water-Cooler TV," an era in which shows need to deal with constant online feedback. It's a great read about a bold idea: the death of the water cooler, where co-workers once rehydrated and talked about last night's "Breaking Bad."

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