Want to see what everyone says here. From memes, to social media, to internet trolling, would find it hard to argue otherwise
WTF, miscategorized it again. Need to fight that tendency.
Yes. Also, the Internet has provided a platform to spread anti-factual information more quickly than ever.
True, studies will always at least keep on getting conducted so there’s that.
The real people that I talk to and interact with every day in real life are no more obnoxious than they have ever been. I find that they are mostly kind, generous and thoughtful.
On the Internet, it’s a different story. People definitely show their worst online (although not all of them, and not in all situations). But do I think that individuals in general are worse because of the Internet? No. It’s a platform for spreading ugliness that makes it more visible to the rest of us.
You’re right most people aren’t gonna show their worst in real life.
Also, I think the internet is the one of the few niche places for people to spout and sprew their shit because of all the given platforms and outlets it has given the world over the years. I mean you can find any kind of website for that matter nowadays. Tell what can’t you find in the internet?
It’s made obnoxious people easier to find. Before the internet, you had to watch how they drove and guess whether they were asshholes or just incompetent.
Quite a while ago (in the 80s, I think) it was noticed that in electronic communication, people will say things they wouldn’t say face-to-face. This is probably due to the lack of immediate feedback. So I’ve always kept that in mind whenever I post: never write anything I wouldn’t say to someone’s face.
Nah, people were always obnoxious shits, with relatively few exceptions. The internet has simply allowed them to indulge their obnoxious shittyness in new ways.
Well, yes, that is the whole point of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Syndrome, isn’t it? It takes away the restraints that used to fetter the obnoxious shittyness.
In the 1980s if you wanted to promote your bigoted conspiracy theory you’d stand in a street corner, or you’d put out a mimeographed 'zine that you’d place in the back row of your local alternative secondhand bookstore *maybe *after telling the owner, and at most 15 people would either listen to you or read it on a good day. And you’d risk someone punching your face on the street corner.
Now you’ll be a trending topic on Twitter from the comfort of your den.
Well is just a theory of mine.
Social media should be called “anti-social” media.
People are absolutely more obnoxious on the internet than real life unless you live in a very rough environment, maybe a prison or a middle school or something. 
And since many people act more obnoxiously more often than they used to, because they can on the internet, that probably filters back real life eventually. You could argue how exactly it does or would effect real life. Perhaps people get more of their venom out on the web and so have less of it for real life. But I’m not actually that optimistic about it.
Not purely about obnoxiousness, I find a lot of the prejudice you see on the web (and not only in the conventional direction most people at a forum like this would be worried about, though that too) makes me more suspicious of people in real life. Do they hold me in the same disdain people on the web often do just because of the group I belong to or beliefs I have?
True, a lot of people have shown their true colors before through the internet.
Ayy lmao
Moved to IMHO (obviously). Please pay attention to forum descriptions.
Colibri
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Moved to IMHO (obviously). Please pay attention to forum descriptions.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
Oh oh ok
*Shivers nerverously
Nerverously? What is that?
Wasn’t Shivers Nerverously a teacher at Hogwarts?
Or maybe at Unseen University…