When I was a primary school kid, the deputy principal would always start his Monday morning assembly speech with “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”. Hearing that every single Monday allowed us kids to mouth the words as he was voicing them, but the true meaning of it only hit me later on in life.
This is definitely something I try to abide by now, whether it is online or ‘in real life’. But it has amazed me how ruthless people have become in the online world. It seems like becoming distanced from the person they are aiming their rotten tomatoes at makes them want to throw them even harder. Although this is quite accurate according to the Laws of Motion, I’m always curious as to why people take the effort to post something nasty.
Take YouTube for example. People are free to watch any video they like, yet they choose the videos they dislike and throw all their collected sticks and stones in one go in the direction of the video owner. If you don’t like something, why not just close the tab? That’s the beauty of the Internet.
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