I wanted to tell you guys about something that came to my mind, about being online and things that happen on the internet, you know, social things.. things about interaction between humans sitting behind a device connected to the internet. (I was gonna write “human sitting behind a computer screen” but then I remembered my nicely nice nokia5800 , then I obviously changed it, hehe )
Okay the thing goes like this, and I’m sure more than one of you have experienced something similar.
Behind the screen is very easy to be rude, a bad guy, sassy, cocky, etc, you know, behave like you have a lot of guts, (or you’re a total asshole).
I’ve been online for over 10 years, so 10 years ago I was barely a teenager and then I thought that such attitude was coherent to my age group; people I interacted with was 13–14 years, even I acted like that sometime, but it’s normal, not OK, but normal.
The odd thing is that now, 10 years later, I still find myself involved in situations such as I would have 10 years ago, but now I deal with people my age, from 20 years old on. So I sadly realized it’s not a matter of age, or maturity, but I dunno what that is.
There must be something about the “anonymity” that the web carries, I put anonymity between quotemarks because I know the people I’m dealing with, cause they’re not anonymous (sup /b/). I’m not talking about acting baddass on 4chan, that doesn’t count here, hehe.
Well, that’s all I thought about (yeah, I know.. should have finished it with something bigger, but It’s just a thought)
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