Also, I might add this idea being terrible or not depends on the types of people you interact with. There are people in the world who value these sorts of communications, and if you do this long enough, eventually the ones who don't self-edit themselves out. You get called "asshole" and "weirdo" and "maniac" along the way, but years later, life is pretty grand.

I don't take it to this unnecessary extreme (there are better ways of putting most of the things he said and still being just as honest), but it really does work.