Hatred, abuse and a simmering rage – Human outourings online.

Meh, when you’re sittin around all day on your computer (not like myself right now) you start to lose perspective. This sucks, but luckily there’s stuff, (such as high existence).
Also, people inherently start anywhere they don’t know, some people stay there and keep on not knowing, and they keep drowning in their escape from it, no imaginful (yes that’s now a word and you better believe it you fucking troll < =8 douche!!1! >:?) wonderings about how their reality has a life of it’s own and has had one, only that it’s on it’s own. I try not to mind it, i will do what I do and not worry what if they aren’t. They’re pretty lame but I don’t care too much for them. Spread your stuff and not their that.

@Manimal couldn’t have said it better myself. People say all kinds of hateful things on the internet because it’s safe to do so, if they said these things in real life they’d get their asses beat to a pulp.

On the other hand the political ones are interesting sometimes. You can see the common ground between people’s differing points of view on problems, and see that they’re not so far apart on what they want most of the time. If we could all agree to drop labels like “liberal, conservative, etc.” I’m sure there’s a lot most people could agree on.

Am I the only person who thinks that youtube comments are usually pretty funny? I mean, yeah, it depends on the video… but sometimes they say what everyone’s thinking but too mature to say XD

The phenomenon is related to the whole Stanford Prison Experiment, right? For those of you who haven’t heard of it check it out: http://www.prisonexp.org/. Those weren’t even anonymous, just given absolute power w/o threat of reprisal, which is basically the same thing.

When I need a break and a laugh I go to a site called baseballthinkfactory. One thread or another is guaranteed to crack me up every time. Many of the participants are pretty intelligent and the site is a way for them to blow off steam & sharpen their chops. It’s a baseball site and right now the hot thread has evolved into a greatest rock band & song debate. it’s the only site I visit for the entertainment value of the comment threads.

lol, Manimal, faecies.
Bird I agree in a way, douchebaggery in a growing trend of entertainment.
I have a little analogy that I often use- If two people are walking down a street on either side of the road, one is coming home from a hard day at work, the other is pissed coming home from the pub, which one will you notice? The one in quiet stride or the one staggering all over the place screaming abuse?
It is a case of the most offensive being noticed in society and that is not just a phenomena localised to this example. You think about how people in the financial sector work, there is probably the most profitable industry one can be in, but to simply survive there (forget about climbing to the top and winning) you have to throw things like morals, ethics, virtues and values out the window. Destroying lives for profit is an unsavoury business, and extremely offensive.
So in a culture where badboys get all the chicks (metaphor…. or is it?), that all manner of obscene behaviour is rewarded, what do you expect? There is a saying “any press is good press” you see controvercial things happening, it gets on the news how bad they have been, boooom you have a sensation making huge ammounts of money in deals and merchandising. I’m ranting, stopping now.