A friend of mine once told me that his friends think sending Onion articles over instant messenger is the lowest form of human communication possible. But as an inveterate Onion fan I can’t accept that answer. In fact, I view that activity as the highest possible form of communication.
What’s your candidate for the lowest?
My answer: comments on political YouTube videos.
Presidential debates.
Closely tied with commentary on the Golf Channel.
Bad puns are often given that honor.
Facebook.
I would agree with the Facebook comments comment.
Cat-calls and whistling as women walk past a construction zone.
Straw-man fallacies. (“So, all construction workers are pigs, is that it?”)
Potty jokes.
Photoshopping pictures of Barack Obama, with Nazi regalia, or with a noose around his neck.
Condemning others… ( 
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Most any that involve anonymity and vile behavior, regardless of the arena.
Writing in the bathroom stalls, graffiti, bumper stickers, genre fiction. Just kidding. Graffiti can be pretty neat.
Even on the lowest of internet sites and glurgey click bait e-mail you might get a back and forth and a link to an outside source, so they’re not so bad.
Malicious gossip, IMO.
Huh? Why would you send it over instant messenger? And why would that be “lowest”? For that matter, what exactly is meant by “low” discourse? I think there’s a difference between empty and low, and already the two are being conflated in this thread.
Prayer.
Even writing in bathroom stalls, graffiti, bumper stickers, click bait e-mails, Facebook posts, presidential debates, Onion articles and comments on political YouTube videos have an actual audience.
My elderly cousin sending me anti-Islam glurge with no commentary.
That gets my vote today.
Yahoo! Answers
Emailing me Facebook glurg about 5 things I didn’t know about Obama or Islam or cupcakes or whatever! These same people still send me emails about Microsoft will give you a dollar if you pass on this email.
When you’re talking to someone whose had too much to drink or not a lot of education, and his response to your point is to say it back to you in “retard” voice.
Lower still, he hits you instead.
Farting contests.
The Facebook “like”.
It says “I want to communicate with you, but not enough to actually communicate”.
I think it’s when some responds to a post with just the cartoon roll-eye smiley face thing (go ahead and reply to this post with it, you know you want to).
Chain letters, which fortunately seem to be going out of style.
Having a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
But for real, gossip is the worst.