Online civility -- it if ever existed -- has withered up and died. And it's only getting worse... "It's about consequences, and not suffering from any," says Jacqueline Whitmore, an etiquette expert and founder of etiquetteexpert.com. "There are absolutely no repercussions to writing a nasty comment or e-mail, so people feel they can vent at will. They never think that the person receiving the message might be a real human being."
this absolutely makes sense, and absolutely makes me sad. and i don't want to believe it's 'getting worse', i really don't. i think, rather, it's a similar proportion of clueless people, only more people in general online.
i hope. but still, very sad.
(have to admit i thought it was funny he tracked down that guy and got his mom on the phone. perhaps that is one commenter scared straight.)
Yay for tracking people down...but no matter how nice the person is on the phone...a good person does not send shit like that to people on the internet because they disagreed with an opinion. And just who do they think is writing an article if a real person did not write it? Do we have sports computers capable of of auto-writing such an article?
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this absolutely makes sense, and absolutely makes me sad. and i don't want to believe it's 'getting worse', i really don't. i think, rather, it's a similar proportion of clueless people, only more people in general online.
i hope. but still, very sad.
(have to admit i thought it was funny he tracked down that guy and got his mom on the phone. perhaps that is one commenter scared straight.)
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