Monday, December 5, 2016

The Troll Epidemic

Almost simultaneously rising with the complexity of social media interface, the population of trolls has truly been a burden on the World Wide Web. It’s as if a single troll spawns three more following every vulgar post, which is doubly aggravating as they encompass the majority of popular websites. Yes, it is clear that this issue is formidable, but to put it to a halt, we must first understand the internet troll. From my experience, most of the smack I’ve seen talked by them revolves around a recurring theme of obscene crudeness against the popular opinion. Now, this leads to two outcomes, the first being equal or greater backlash, and the latter being a double digit number of dislikes, which in turn also makes it show up in the top comments for everyone to see. Whichever way it happens, the troll always receives attention, and I’ve decided that that is exactly what the trolls are seeking. With this is mind, the solution to the troll epidemic is simple; do not feed the trolls attention.

                

2 comments:

  1. These is exactly what I was trying to say as well. The less attention they receive the less initiative they'll have to attack others. I too have seen those examples of trolls but it all varies from person to person. The point being this problem isn't going away and it's time we do something about it.

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  2. I completely agree. I feel that once they realize they are getting little to no attention, they will stop doing what they are doing because they will no longer have the satisfaction of seeing people get hurt. Another problem is that some people are just so quick to lash back at trolls without thinking about it.

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