Monday, December 5, 2016
*sigh* Trolling. A first world problem, but it is still relevant in today's society. People are subjected to degrading comments via social media, it happens everyday, but it is your decision as to whether or notsomeone will let these comments affect them negatively, or to simply just ignore them. "Trollers" feed of of attention, that is merely the only reason they exist. They post a negative comment and just watch everyones reaction. So ultimately, if we don't give them attention, then they will stop commenting. This way the basic rights of other commenters aren't taken away, it allows them to comment as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone's feelings. Never the less, if the people who are affected by negative,anonymous comments simply ignored the, trollers wouldn't even exist. My point may be biast in a way because I have never experienced the "wrath" of online trollers, but by what I've seen on the internet, I believe I could make a fair judgement on how this "trolling" situaton should be handled.
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I agree that people ignoring the trolls would make the trolls disappear, but it's not necessarily as easy as that. Because people are so fueled by their emotions, because trolls, as we saw with Zelda Williams, will go SO far to bring damage. And in our culture, the way people's words are so ingrained in our every day mind frame ignoring people is't so easy. Definitely not as a whole unit.
ReplyDeleteLike with attacks on appearance, for instance. Those attacks are often, because of the media, what people ALREADY subconsciously kinda think about themselves, at least somewhere in the back of their mind, and learning to love themselves ON THEIR OWN is hard enough without a constant bashing of negative comments. Not everybody is strong enough to the point of being able to just not listen.
Ignoring the problem won't fix it.
Honestly I never see how people get so offended by trolling comments, its sort of funny from my experience with them, no real "wrath" lmaooo Still, i'll hope you never have to deal with one.
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