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NEWSFLASH: People on the internet can be rude?!?

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Rudeness, threats make the Web a cruel world - Yahoo! News

SAN FRANCISCO - Brooke Brodack remembers her first online "hater."

Nearly two years ago, the person posted rude comments about a video she had posted on YouTube, says Brodack, 21, of San Francisco, whose videos show her lip-syncing and creating characters. "It was shocking to me. Why would someone want to be so mean for no reason?"

Why, indeed? Nasty comments, sometimes even death threats, have become ubiquitous on virtually any website that seeks to engage readers in discussion.

"Ur ugly u suk and u should die," says a typical comment beneath one of Brodack's many videos. Such vulgar messages have inspired heated discussions, and video responses, on YouTube.

The Internet always has had an anything-goes atmosphere where flame wars and harsh language are common. Now there are more places than ever for people to spout their thoughts - often with relative anonymity - thanks to the explosion in blogs, social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, and comments sections on nearly every news site.
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I can't believe this is a story to be honest, I thought everyone knew that the web brings out the worst in most people, if not sites like Fark, Something Awful or the entire ESPN.COM forums wouldn't exist.

So this brings up the thought, how often have you made a constructive post someplace and had it flamed when it was the last thing you expected? I got it a little here over the helicopter post, but I think I was kind of expecting that to be honest, laughing over people dying doesn't always fly well, no pun intended :p
 
I am sometimes surprised, not by the reaction to a comment I make, but by the intensity of the reaction. In this article an interesting comment about this problem was made.

The online world puts blinders on us.
"Without seeing the immediate consequences of rudeness on the recipient's face or in their voice, it is easier to cross boundaries," says Jeffrey Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication.
People "forget that there are real people reading what they write," Newmark says.
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I've always had misunderstandings crop up once in a awhile due to online communication being textual based and so much of human communication being non-verbal, physical cues. The use of emoticons arose as a way to get around this lack but they can only go so far. Especially as the overuse of emoticons is almost as annoying and hard to understand as a lack of use.
 
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What is it about not being face to face that changes people for the worse?
Now admittedly, if I was face to face with a couple of the guys I fight with here, I would probably be more conciliatory in tone and I'm guessing they would too.

But, if you really want to experience just how awful people can really be.......ride a bicycle on the street. :pissed:
Spit on.
Garbage thrown.
Dogs trying to bite you from cars(encouraged)
Children yelling at you from car windows. (where are the parents?)
Driven off the road.
 
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Best Buckeye;892590; said:
There is no threat of someone giving you an attitude adjustment. So the internet allows poeple to be fearless superheros. :biggrin:
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Agreed, that and because they can't see you it makes it easier to think of another poster as less than human. Which is why some people will say things here that they would never say in person.
 
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