Internet and toxic people

[O.Giroud]

Here i am protected because toxic people of here are not going to cross the sea channel to find me. Great no ?

 

[Gray2233]

 

[Fubsy]

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

The toxicity of the (overall) internet is imo down to how everything now have to be so politicised, both from the left and the right.

Go back to late 90s and early 00s internet and I don't remember that level of toxicity. Sure there were still internet trolls on forum and in chatrooms but it wasn't politicised. Trolls were there just to annoy other internet users and admins/mods.

The problem started in so-called Web 2.0 with the rise of Twitter and similar, making the internet accessible to the lowest denominator. It got even worse from the early 2010s onwards when Twitter could be used on a phone (as an app), so any time, anywhere.

It's not just the internet either. It's in real life and on the TV too. Everything is, just, politics. It encroaches into Hollywood, pop videos, the workplace, university, parties, traditions e.g. Christmas, dating and so on. In the late 90s, when I was still an adult but a young that is, I remember people simply got on better.

 

[Mr Badger]

Jesus was not a white man in reality

^FTFY

 

[Mr Badger]

My french ex gf didn't understand british sarcasm and our dry humor. She took things literally and got offended. I really had to consciously not be sarcastic in her presence. Wasn't easy.

Sounds as though you had a sarchasm.

 

[Lopéz]

The internet has given a voice to people who should never have been given one. Part of that will be toxic individuals, of which there are plenty.

 

[potatolord]

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Go back to late 90s and early 00s internet and I don't remember that level of toxicity. Sure there were still internet trolls on forum and in chatrooms but it wasn't politicised. Trolls were there just to annoy other internet users and admins/mods.

The problem started in so-called Web 2.0 with the rise of Twitter and similar, making the internet accessible to the lowest denominator. It got even worse from the early 2010s onwards when Twitter could be used on a phone (as an app), so any time, anywhere.
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It's got to where I can't tell the trolls from the genuine loonies any more.

Every comments thread is infested with low-comprehension fools- who hold very strong opinions. Overclockers forum is way better than the mass media sites in this regard- possibly as it's better moderated.

Idiocy has reached critical mass.

 

[Freefaller]

@Freefaller thoughts?

I have toxic thoughts on this.

 

[Freddie1980]

Yes we have. But sarcasm in English when you are french...not so easy to understand !

Do you want the mods to change your username to D.Ginola or E.Cantona?

 

[Diddums]

I find that not being a whiny little bitch is a great way to tolerate toxicity.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Hello Monsieur Giroud, you are a very good looking homme

 

[potatolord]

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Thanks you and hello from France. (The problem in France are the people but its a nice country)

Welcome to the forums.

Expect much British humour, which is often terribly unfunny- even as a British person.