Dubble, that was one depressing look at reality. :(

There's something to be said about caustic assholism, and retarded assholism like you see on Youtube comment pages: Sure, any dumb shit can waltz in here and say something like "NIGGERS ARE DUMB" but it takes a real jerk to bring personal elements into the game and start slinging shit from behind their e-fence.

There is no real line between which one is worse, though. Both are examples of people who take their shit too seriously on the internet, who use it as an outlet to release their inner putz and never look back or feel regret for some of the awful shit they say to people online. Ultimately all that can be said about people like that is, well, they're losers. Social drop-outs who can't make friends anywhere, even on the internet, so they resort to being fucks because if they were fucks any other way they would indeed get their asses beat to hell and back.

However, I think that even though there are e-jerks roaming the internets, people should just enjoy it regardless. Fact of the matter is, there are going to be jerks no matter where you go: THE INTERNET IS NO ESCAPE

The real trick to enjoying internet is to understand what the trolls already know: It's the fucking internet. If you're taking it seriously, you've already lost the game.

I don't understand how trolls get their kicks from this, though. You're basically role-playing an argument, for the sake of watching walls of meaningless text scroll past. Do you get wet just imagining the flustered geek on the other line, or do you feel it's your civic duty to intimidate sub-par forum-goers?

Yep and those people responsible for YT a fucktards because they do NOTHING about it. At least IMDB deletes out-of-control messages -.- It's sad to see this on GF as well where some weirdoes literally stalk you thread for thread.

The sad part is I agree. I think society today is really going down hill. It doesn't have to do with just online, but many other things. Crime is getting worse, etc.

Over the past 5 years I've lost so much respect for society it is at the point where it can't get much lower than it already is. I'm not going to go around telling people what to do with their lives, but on the same token I don't have to approve of it either.

Well, no, you see, society has always been like this, internet or no internet. It's just human nature. The history books omit the parts about how your forefathers regularly stomped the shit out of faggots, because it's not really pertinent information.

Violence and racism have more controls over them now, but they are still alive and well. It'll probably always be that way, too.

It's rather like what guards in the Stanford Prison Experiment showed...if you put people in a position of power their grasp of morality suddenly becomes more tenuous. The internet provides a feeling of power purely because there are no repercussions. I think it sad that someone could type hateful comments without any pause for thought.