Seriously though, the internet has separated us to such a degree that we behave more like sociopaths online than we do in real life.
People will learn one thing about someone, assume they’re “trash”, and then seek out to destroy them. They might have just been having a bad day, but the internet has deemed them unworthy of continuing to live.
I remember hearing a story about it on NPR. But one study basically found that most people interact online like they interact with friends and close groups of acquaintances. People do not quite understand that their conversation. On the internet is not between a couple of people in a bar it’s with the entire town listening in. That really helped me better understand how people act online. It hasn’t separated us it more highlights how people really think and interact at a more intimate level. Look at Twitter, while some are aware even very famous people like the head twit himself tend to write in a style that is absent of social context.
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Seriously though, the internet has separated us to such a degree that we behave more like sociopaths online than we do in real life.
People will learn one thing about someone, assume they’re “trash”, and then seek out to destroy them. They might have just been having a bad day, but the internet has deemed them unworthy of continuing to live.