Same Twitter, Different Emotional Behaviors

Twitter has been popular in Korea for about a year only. It has become a popular media mainly due to the wide adoption of smartphones by the public, esp. iPhones. A cursory look at the behavioral patterns of Korean Twitterians and U.S. Twitterians gives an interesting comparison. Obviously Korean Twitterians are emotionally attached to what happens on his Twittter timelines. It seems to me that Twitter has become another fight-by-replies field for those who were addicted to fighting on-line.

One can easily say Twitter is another media and it doesn't change people. True. But my question is more like what the ideal form of internet communication that minimizes people's pathetic behaviors is. Or am I too naive to throw such question and not understand people need terminal sewage treatment facilities for their not-so-pleasant-to-see-under-real-name kind of emotions?
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Cost Benefit of Law School

It's a bit too late in time that NYT brings this issue up. Does law school pay off your student loans and the time you spend?

The Volokh Conspiracy comments on the NYT article. 

Most people who are insiders in the legal industry will agree on the implications of the NYT article. It should be noted that Japan's law school has turned out to be a failure. Korea introduced law school two years ago. Only a year left for the first graduates of the Korean law schools face the realities. Will they break even on what they spent in law schools? We will see.

Apart from ROI or break-even analysis of law school graduates, the Volokh Conspiracy's comment is worth reading from a different perspective. Does the society need many lawyers? Do people have to go to graduate schools to make the society better?

Often times, this question is out of the question. Does high education level in general promise high per capita GDP? This question is cast by Prof. Ha-Joon Chang, a Cambridge fellow. Higher average education means higher education cost. To make both ends meet, higher education must produce higher GDP. Highly educated people must contribute to the GDP by way of making the intangible social infrastructure better so that other people can make better output even at the same level of labor input.

But in reality highly educated people often times get involved in professions that are not directly linked to such functions, rather they have jobs in areas that mostly contribute to the individual income. It's a question of adequte distribution of resources.

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