People are so mean on the Internet. There's actually so much hate and anger that exists over the Internet. People hide behind and use it to say the most untoward things.
It's like let's use the Internet to mask ourselves and then, let us project hate, so much hate, and it's okay, they don't know who we are so we can get away with it. At first when I started using the Internet this was shocking to me, and it still is. Why so many swear words directed at me, you don't know me, you may not even know what I look like. I may save your life some day, my kidney may just be the random one that will save you, I may be driving by and find your child/mother/significant other suffering and be the good Samaritan that will save them. How can I do that when you've projected so much hate my way just because of a simple argument or misunderstanding over the Internet. How can I get to reach out to anyone when they could just very well be the asshole that cursed me out over the Internet? How can we possibly ever speak of One Love, One World when we project so much hate out onto the atmosphere?
On Friday, instead of enjoying one of the first true summer days, I got into this little tiff with a community manager on LiveJournal. I know, community manager, he was already power drunk from that and then, before I knew it, hate started coming my way. Like who gets angry on a Friday, it's the freaking weekend. Mind you, this man who is 44 years old (he had his birthday on his profile) and also happens to be a Gemini, started to insult me, "Act like an adult, you're an idiot." And then, he cut of my communication with the group just so I wouldn't respond to his "You' re an Idiot" comment. Like I said, so much hate. And I don't know his real name, and he doesn't know mine. Yet, we were going at each other like enemies (or rather he was going at me, because I refused to stoop to that level)
In the end I kept thinking after 9 plus years of using the Internet, and being cursed out at least once a year, I thought I would have gotten used to it by now. But each time it's always so shocking, how thoroughly mean people can be. Evil truly comes in many forms and the one over the Internet must be the most masked one of all, directed at a foe that you may not even know. For what, just because you disagree with that person's opinion about something, or just because they are not fans of a certain celebrity the same way you are, for what really?
That's one of the reasons I keep this journal and I am open to people disagreeing with my musings, or the way I carry on my life, and that's fine, because I disagree with a great majority of what people do as well. But I try to post everyone's comments, I am open to comments if they are not filled with hate, spam, bad grammar or just seething with anger. But on journals like LiveJournal or Yahoogroups or worse, Twitter, where nothing is seeded, there can be found the true form of that Internet hate that is just so unnecessary or misdirected. Let us use our energies to bring towards love in this world. There's so much to be angry about except ourselves, the Internet is supposed to be our escape from our frantic lives, your solace, not a place where the outside frenzy seeps into over nothing substantial. It's just so hard to even trust people now, I keep thinking, this could be that person who thinks I am an Idiot. How can we live like this?
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