Sometimes I really do think the internet is too cheap and easy to use.
It’s a magnificent tool, arguably one of the greatest things mankind has ever come up with but boy, does it have a downside!
I’ve given up reading the feedback section in online newspapers. The one sided, opinionated bile that comes out on those sorts of forums is something to behold and even on sites that specialize in certain subjects, the abuse and insults that are hurled by people who don’t know each other is downright disgusting.
If someone spoke to you on the street the way some speak to each other over the net you would snot them!
These for the most part are not what society would call “bogans” or “low life’s”, although unfortunately that type seem to populate the net in annoying numbers. Most of them seem to be regular people who take the opportunity to use the anonimity of the net to engage in what amounts to “cyber brawls”.
Perhaps rather than going to the pub and annoying someone to the point where they knock your teeth out these people prefer to spread their unpleasantness and toxic personalities online, arguing, threatening and projecting their Alpha characteristics safe in the knowledge that the butt of their animosity is far away and thus never likely to meet them face to face where their rudeness and arrogance can be called to account.
I’ve just been reading a website called “The Riot” where local happenings around Canberra are reported and there is an opportunity for people to discuss these incidents in a feedback section.
Again it is the same thing, disagreeable people trying to impose opinion on others, refusing to see that there may well be two sides to every story and labelling others with every name under the sun if their point of view isn’t the universally accepted truth.
I frequent a popular cycling website which has a message board which operates with exactly the same type of people and a skydiving message board where similar occurs. I’m sure it’s the same right across the internet. “Webrage” really is a phenomenon!
I was reading, and I can’t remember where, a quote, it may have been on a Facebook page of all places, which stated that you should make comment on the web as if you were sitting at a table at a dinner party with people who you have just met and I thought it was brilliant and very apt and succinct. It is the way I try to conduct myself, with my blog, on Facebook and Twitter. It’s the way I got brought up to deal with others who you don’t know very well and the former quote is something that I think many should take to heart and live by when using the internet.
The net strips away the nicieties of society and, free from the requirements of etiquette and manners that are the norm in face to face contact, people can expose their true selves and act in a way that will not bring retribution and will give them some solace in otherwise dreary lives where following rules and taking orders and keeping in line are everyday requirements.
It’s a shame that such a powerful instrument can be used in such a way. Perhaps it just exposes humans for what they really are although that is using far too big a brush stroke I suppose.
I just try to stay away from heated debate and have found my own little space here, where hopefully I am not insulting or upsetting anyone.
Until next time.
It’s a magnificent tool, arguably one of the greatest things mankind has ever come up with but boy, does it have a downside!
I’ve given up reading the feedback section in online newspapers. The one sided, opinionated bile that comes out on those sorts of forums is something to behold and even on sites that specialize in certain subjects, the abuse and insults that are hurled by people who don’t know each other is downright disgusting.
If someone spoke to you on the street the way some speak to each other over the net you would snot them!
These for the most part are not what society would call “bogans” or “low life’s”, although unfortunately that type seem to populate the net in annoying numbers. Most of them seem to be regular people who take the opportunity to use the anonimity of the net to engage in what amounts to “cyber brawls”.
Perhaps rather than going to the pub and annoying someone to the point where they knock your teeth out these people prefer to spread their unpleasantness and toxic personalities online, arguing, threatening and projecting their Alpha characteristics safe in the knowledge that the butt of their animosity is far away and thus never likely to meet them face to face where their rudeness and arrogance can be called to account.
I’ve just been reading a website called “The Riot” where local happenings around Canberra are reported and there is an opportunity for people to discuss these incidents in a feedback section.
Again it is the same thing, disagreeable people trying to impose opinion on others, refusing to see that there may well be two sides to every story and labelling others with every name under the sun if their point of view isn’t the universally accepted truth.
I frequent a popular cycling website which has a message board which operates with exactly the same type of people and a skydiving message board where similar occurs. I’m sure it’s the same right across the internet. “Webrage” really is a phenomenon!
I was reading, and I can’t remember where, a quote, it may have been on a Facebook page of all places, which stated that you should make comment on the web as if you were sitting at a table at a dinner party with people who you have just met and I thought it was brilliant and very apt and succinct. It is the way I try to conduct myself, with my blog, on Facebook and Twitter. It’s the way I got brought up to deal with others who you don’t know very well and the former quote is something that I think many should take to heart and live by when using the internet.
The net strips away the nicieties of society and, free from the requirements of etiquette and manners that are the norm in face to face contact, people can expose their true selves and act in a way that will not bring retribution and will give them some solace in otherwise dreary lives where following rules and taking orders and keeping in line are everyday requirements.
It’s a shame that such a powerful instrument can be used in such a way. Perhaps it just exposes humans for what they really are although that is using far too big a brush stroke I suppose.
I just try to stay away from heated debate and have found my own little space here, where hopefully I am not insulting or upsetting anyone.
Until next time.
Strange Notations From a Laborious Life 