I am never gonna post on the fucking internet again holy shit
vent post please ignoreI’m so sick of being a shameful social embarrassment, holy shit how pathetic do you have to be to be incapable of talking to people ON THE INTERNET Fuck talking to people in general
I wonder if I’ve given myself brain poisoning by spending at least an hour (often more) arguing on the internet every day for almost twenty years. No wonder I assume everyone I talk to is only hiding their disdain behind a mask of politeness and that everyone secretly hates me lol
I won (according to me anyway) an irl argument with a Zionist last week. Internet fighting is helpful background as long as you touch grass a little bit to temper it.
I mean I tend to assume people are annoyed at me too, but what you describe I assume to be the normal internet user experience, I guess that’s why people are always out for blood
Noone’s capable of talking to people on the internet. The detachment from personal interaction messes with how people empathize with eachother. Forums have always been famously nasty places. Try to be kind and respectful, but don’t be too hard on yourself when you don’t manage to do that.
Yeah I think the loss of face/body language and also tone/loudness of voice is an insurmountable gap in our ability to recognize each other as real people on the internet. We’re all just random encounters in the posting RPG and generosity/kindness/compassion have to be conscious choices rather than instinctual. I do wonder what effect that is going to have on the next generation as they grow up completely online.
Optimistically they’ll adapt and learn ways to be good to each other. Pessimistically… well uh… nvm at least they have video and voice chat?
It’s better here because I recognise so many repeating names, but even on leddit I’d often peruse somebody’s profile to try to figure out what kinda person they were.
I never look at people irl and can barely read tone anyway so blob-no-thoughts
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