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What is it that makes people so mean on the internet?
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RE: What is it that makes people so mean on the internet?
I went through a phase on BevNET years ago, which was a site I actually did like, and went by "Hans", and would respond to anything by taking a thing of text in English, running it through Google to some other language: Hebrew, Icelandic, Urdu...anything. And then running it back. And then picking out the untranslated stuff and weird punctuation so that is sounded kind of like a word salad, I guess. 

Some people actually found it hilarious, but it pissed off others. I guess I just enjoyed the attention.

But then the other day I used my insta to very simply complement somebody on a modeling pic, and she completely ripped me apart. It could have been that everybody following her was a personal friend, and I'm not. Or she could have been having a bad day. Or she might have been writing into what I said. Or it could have been me, but I was kind of taken aback.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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RE: What is it that makes people so mean on the internet? - by c172 - October 23, 2017 at 8:04 pm

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