Is trolling just glorified bullying?
It makes fun of dead people. Does anything to get a rise out of people.
You do anything just to annoy someone, including telling them to go die, or kill themselves. Say horrible things about their dead parents.
And yes, I've looked into this, its classed as trolling.
Originally posted by SamZED
It'd be somewhat similar if all bullies were only allowed to bully you from behind a bulletproof glass so you could ignore them. Difference is internet warriors can't really corner you and beat the crap out of you.
The worst cyber bullying happens when people who know each other IRL take to the internet to get at their victims. In America, there have been a few cases of young girls who committed suicide after some of their classmates bullied them relentlessly over Facebook and Twitter.
I agree that regular stranger-on-stranger trolling is pretty ineffectual, and anyone who lets that get to them is silly.
Originally posted by Omega VisionI've heard about that, does that also fall under the "trolling" category? The word makes me think of a 12 year old in YouTube comment section capslocking racial slurs and random mother insults.
Well, they sort of can.The worst cyber bullying happens when people who know each other IRL take to the internet to get at their victims. In America, there have been a few cases of young girls who committed suicide after some of their classmates bullied them relentlessly over Facebook and Twitter.
I agree that regular stranger-on-stranger trolling is pretty ineffectual, and anyone who lets that get to them is silly.
Originally posted by Bentley
Bullies help young people to build character, trolls are useless.
Originally posted by SamZED
I've heard about that, does that also fall under the "trolling" category? The word makes me think of a 12 year old in YouTube comment section capslocking racial slurs and random mother insults.
Originally posted by Bentley
Bullies help young people to build character, trolls are useless.
Bullies destroy your character. The mental, social, emotional, and sometimes even physical impacts can be overwhelming for some individuals. Bullying can alter a victim's worldviews towards pessimism and nihilism.
Re: Is trolling just glorified bullying?
Originally posted by Jmanghan
It makes fun of dead people. Does anything to get a rise out of people.You do anything just to annoy someone, including telling them to go die, or kill themselves. Say horrible things about their dead parents.
And yes, I've looked into this, its classed as trolling.
I think the way the media uses the word trolling now is very different to how it was used in the past on the internet. Once troll threads were funny, but unfortunately some people take it too far. Online forums before their demise, due to Social Media went through an awful phase. A lot of groups of trolls would lay down a marker that a forum was theirs and use ludicrous terminology copied from the Chan boards e.g. Rape you, ethnic slurs etc. These same trolls would suck up to forum mods who are often insecure, ill educated losers living in a fantasy world who will do anything for friends and these mods would protect these trolls - who would often pick on the weak, vulnerable and young of a forum. It would also make them the targets of bigger trolls who could activate these forum defender trolls for "lulz".
Many weak forummers would go along with these loser forum trolls who would feel "epic" ekudos from their self congratulatory behaviour. Eventually though these forum protector trolls would overstep the mark with their pet mods and get banned "fail" or run away from a forum for a short amount of time "butthurt", until they thought that the regulars had changed enough and they had sucked up enough to the pet mods to return often with different accounts.
The beahviours of these trolls became a template for internet bullies and has been copied by school age children. How much blood is on this type of trolls hands and the mods who protected them and allowed things like organised paedo rings to take place on their forums?
Keep the faith,
-AD
@Omega & Asbestos
Yeah, now that you mention it, the risk of trolling becoming an issue is also much lower than the risk of being traumatized by a bully. Bullying people is obviously a wrong attitude that is destructive to begin with, for each party involved.
My original intention was to note that trolling doesn't help to build character, as our span of attention online works pretty differently as that of real life experiences -for starters-.