Posted by Tabitha on March 15, 2016, at 14:49:14
In reply to Re: I do miss babble. » Tabitha, posted by baseball55 on March 14, 2016, at 19:25:00
> Maybe babble was Kinder, but I remember being on a list-serve when the internet was pretty new and non-commercial and the constant flame-ups drove me crazy. Really nasty stuff and people (like Lou) who seemed to be there only to cause problems. I thin that's the nature of internet conversation groups. When you're not communicating face-to-face with people, things can get ugly easily. It's sort of like the way people behave in cars, where they see themselves interacting with other cars, not with other people. Like cars that drive up to the very end of a merge, then force their way in. The same people would never think of cutting in a line.So true. I forget what it's called-- disinhibition? My partner gets flare-ups of road rage when cars cut in front of him, which is funny to me because he's so sweet and non-confrontational in person. For me, I try to think of other cars as inanimate objects, or robot-driven or something. So I guess that's just another way of de-humanizing the humans in cars. Makes it less aggravating. Actually I try to think of internet trolls as robots, too. Doesn't work when people are truly vile though.
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