The Blurred Lines of Trolling

     I follow a decent amount of news media on Twitter, namely CNN and The New York Times. Pretty much all of their articles are able to have some opinion formed based on them, and since it's Twitter, people are able to leave those comments directly under the tweet without even reading the actual article. Every once in a while I'll see a headline that instantly tells me how people are going to react to it, and when I check the replies, they're not the best.
     Since I'm on Twitter and I already wasn't doing anything productive, every once in a while I'll check someone's profile to see what they're like. Usually the more inflammatory people have bios that sound something like, "I'm not afraid to offend you" or "The First Amendment protects me." Bios like these could only come from people whose opinions deliberately aggravate others.
     And yet, they're not exactly trolls. To me, a troll is someone who, regardless of their own opinion, makes a post to get a rise out of others. These are people who actively seek out and plant their own opinion wherever and whenever they can simply because they want to say how they feel. It doesn't seem like they look for a fight to pick- the fights just come naturally. And most of the time, two of these people with opposite opinions meet each other, latch on, and never let go. It's interesting to see.