OK - just a little observation on "The Weird" from my travels through cyberspace...
Have you ever noticed the amount of people who are "anti-" that end up joining and posting on "pro-" forums and then just proceed to bitch and gripe and cast aspersions? What is up with that? You have this tiny little haven for "believers" to discuss things and share ideas; and then all the sudden some bully shows up and poisons the place with animosity. Don't these people have anything better to do than seek out people with differing views and attempt to humiliate them? You'd think they'd find their own forum that shares their view point.....
This is something I absolutely cannot fathom. If something thinks that "Green" is total bunk, why go to a "Green Living" forum? If something thinks that living in the city is awesome and people who live in the country are ignorant hicks who live in shacks, why go to a "Small Town Living" forum? The list goes on, my friends, these are just two examples. Are these people just so intolerant of a differing opinion that they must actively seek out avenues to spread their bile and crush the "opposition"?
There are probably millions of forums catering to ideals that I personally don't believe in, or maybe even find distasteful, but I don't waste my time seeking them out and then take every opportunity to rail against them and make derisive comments. What do I care what they think and do? They can have their beliefs and their own little corner of cyberspace, it's no skin off my back. OK, maybe I'm just a little more tolerant, but seriously, I also just plain have better uses for my time.
People are funny.
3 comments:
Amen, Sister.
Good observation. Truly sad and sadly true.
I believe they are called trolls. I think they get a kick out of controversy: pot-stirrers, if you will. That or they are just really impotent in their day-to-day living, so they find places to unleash.
Christine in Anchorage
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