by Destiny
Online Identity
1:49 pm in I Hate Men by Destiny
Dear Readers,
Have you ever noticed the difficulty in reading the tone of a blog post? Personally, I love when I read comments where people have the nerve to be ignorant, disrepectful, and down right rude. When the truth is those people writing comments are individuals who have no back bone and would never speak like that face-to-face. Online identities gives people freedom to be another person, someone who they aspire to be, maybe? Or if they are lacking assertiveness in their own life, lay out their “personality” through blogs posts/comments.
Why do we feel we can be who we want online? Is it because we won’t see the authors of blogs? Whatever the reason is remember when you read a post that someone took the time to write it and express themselves to the public. Plus you don’t want to come off as a total jackass when you leave a comment that you might find funny, but no one else does. Keep in mind, “would you say this to their face?” If not, don’t write it…I know I read all the comments that are left on my posts.
Thanks.
I’ve only had difficulty reading the tone of a post if the post is poorly written. It’s easy to convey emotion with proper wording.
Those kinds of comments are usually made by insecure, unhappy people. They can use their anonymity to lash out at you as a target for their personal problems.
I would doubt that they are acting as who they aspire to be, because who wants to be like that on purpose (aside from mental instabilities)? There is a blackness inside them, for whatever reason, and they aren’t big enough to lash out at people in the physical world (which is probably a good thing), so they take it out on faceless, and in their minds, not real, people. It’s hard to ignore because everyone else consider posters to be people, and it seems like these words are directed at them, personally, when actually they are probably not.
Yeah but everybody does it lol, even you put a personality on in your postings, why?> Because it’s unavoidable.
‘Getting away with it’ is stating the obvious, as is your post