The Internet, is completely separate from real life Options

[Comptine]

You know how when cB sees drama, a lot of people like to butt in and say how pathetic it is that people get so worked up over the internet? Like, the eDrama/eAnger/eWhatever is stupid and people shouldn't be concerned about it cause it's online and not real life?

But, I always thought that didn't make sense because whether or not it's offline/online, people are still interacting with one another, talking about stuff, exchanging opinions/ideas. Also, some of the stuff can easily escalate (verbally) worse than IRL because people think the computer screen can protect them if they something truly nasty. And an insult/racist comment/jab is still an insult/racist comment/jab online as it's in real life.

I mean, if a random person you don't know walks up to you and insults you and then runs away before you can do anything about it, people can't just tell you to forget because you don't know the person, etc. Just like how you can't really do anything about online drama but it still affects you.

I'm bored, cB is kinda slow today.

[queen]

it's difficult for me to understand why people are such asses online. and the whole "because i can" excuse is stupid.

why is it so hard for people to act the same way online as they do offline?

and why are people asses offline as well?

humans suck.

[*souperstition*]

it's difficult for me to understand why people are such asses online. and the whole "because i can" excuse is stupid.

Well, that is the excuse. They can. People can say so much more behind a computer screen when they aren't looking directly at someone, when they have no intention of ever meeting this person face to face. It's not that they're different, it's just the fact that online, they say what they want to say, whereas in person, most of the time people are a little more reserved and keep things in. There's also the fact that people type much differently than they speak. Their personalities definitely don't perfectly translate from online to real life.

Or you could be like me and just hold almost everything in no matter what situation you're in. *shrug*

[shiftieeyedpnoi]

Or you could be like me and just hold almost everything in no matter what situation you're in.... and then let it all out when I talk to Jose. *shrug*

Corrected.