“People that are too sensitive should be allowed on the internet.”…. “If your feelings get hurt easy don’t log on.”……”Why You Mad?”…..LOL ok I like that last one personally but in general the tone seems to be that to deal in the online social environment requires thick skin. Lacking this emotion armor seems bother many people. Well my immediate thought to this 1) Why would you expect the Internets to be any different then real/offline life? It’s the same people. Once the digital world became social it immediate became a reflective of our society. And that includes the emotionally sensitive as well as the emotionally reckless. 2) Why is it that a person MUST have think skin online? Could the answer be that because the people that would test you or put you in a position to be emotionally stressed thrive in being dirt bags? Let me clown on them before they clown on me grade antics and various bully-like actions flourish throughout the social networks. It’s to the point that people don’t realize that the basics we grew up on get abandoned due to the safety of digital distance. I can pop off about you and if you get mad I can just block you. Wooooord? That’s the code we go by now? No more “Be man enough to stand up for your word?” Nope. We’re all about “slander” now.
This is one of the reasons I think the bullying issue is the way that it is today. You don’t have the social checks and balances of a face to face ass whooping now. If a person has something against you they can get at you from relative safety and rally more people to get at you very easily. Now of course some may say just ignore it but the social media is linking into every aspect of communication those making a lil hard to just step away.
My personally repeated theme is to cross the line between reality and cyberspace. It’s in the flesh that we balance these issues and stop them before they get too serious. The masses won’t apologize. They’ll say YOU need to be able to take it. They say that’s what the Internet is. It’s on Twitter. It’s just the Internets…….Well yes you do have to be able to take it to a degree but feelings aren’t to be a shamed of either especially when being disrespected by cowards.
2 comments:
I can rock with this post. I never could be or respect what I call internet things..
But I do find that people like hiding behind a comp screen to say mean things to get under someone's skin...when in the real world they would't be as bold.
Interesting post NF!
bullying is the EXACT reason. Everyone wants to be "so cool" with the lack of respect for someone's feelings online.
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