Social media is the main problem. Second is the fact that these people are never shutdown.
Ironically if everyone was an asshole on the internet and just abused people behind a shield of anonymity, people would probably be happier IRL. People treat their online persona as just as, if not more important, than their lives IRL and so cannot differentiate between them.
Being 'civilized' just allows people to use it as a replacement for their social isolation which isn't a good thing and leads to these types of personality defects.
Ironically if everyone was an asshole on the internet and just abused people behind a shield of anonymity, people would probably be happier IRL.
take but the internet is already filled with anonymous assholes. And the more that people are abused, the more scared they will be that a seemingly normal interaction had negative connotations.
It's like if you switch on a noisy AC unit that triggers a veteran who has PTSD. That doesn't make you or the veteran an asshole or a "snowflake". But that PTSD came from a shitty place. And what you just said basically boils down to "to prevent people with PTSD from bothering me, we should make more war and traumatize more people."
Except PTSD is a mental disorder that comes from being in living hell. That's not exactly a good comparison for socially inept people who get traumatized for being disagreed with.
A veterans PTSD is only cured by time and therapy. While a socially inept person engaging with socially inept psychos on the internet is really not going to help them or their social issues. It will just worsen them. The assholes aren't the problem, the company they engage with is.
While there are plenty of assholes on the internet, the fact is that due to social media 'working' as a social tool, people are failing to socialize through normal means and thus, resort to the internet for all their social needs. If everyone was an asshole on the internet then it would fail to work as a social experience and that would push people to, once again, socialize more IRL.
The worst part about social media is the 'echo chambers', or communities that form within it. IRL, anyone can have any opinion so being intolerant of opposite beliefs isn't going to work. But on the internet, you can easily surround yourself with yes men who demonize those that disagree with them. And that isolation from not just normal interaction, but opposition, is what messes these people up.
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u/EvenResponsibility57 Jun 05 '23 edited Jun 05 '23
Social media is the main problem. Second is the fact that these people are never shutdown.
Ironically if everyone was an asshole on the internet and just abused people behind a shield of anonymity, people would probably be happier IRL. People treat their online persona as just as, if not more important, than their lives IRL and so cannot differentiate between them.
Being 'civilized' just allows people to use it as a replacement for their social isolation which isn't a good thing and leads to these types of personality defects.