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Yep ... & that's sad on so many levels.
Youngsters seem to think it is perfectly acceptable to jump in with an opinion whether they are familiar with the subject or not ... without respect of others or differing views.
*shrugs*
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I think that for all the purported claims of the Internet helping people connect, it's really isolating at some level. I think that the inability to realize there is a time that there is a time and place for things is a symptom of this. Not going to say I'm not guilty of it at some level. We need to be attentive to the dangers of technology such as this.
One of the hardest things a person can do is admit they don't know something. I think the Internet makes it worse, and that alone is damaging to our society. Making mistakes is okay as long as you learn from it.
Know what you are, know what you are not. As was once said by Tyler Durden, "sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken."
One of the hardest things a person can do is admit they don't know something. I think the Internet makes it worse, and that alone is damaging to our society. Making mistakes is okay as long as you learn from it.
Know what you are, know what you are not. As was once said by Tyler Durden, "sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken."
I never understood people who can't admit they don't know something. Who gives a fuck if you don't know, you look like a bigger idiot pretending to know.
The online disinhibition effect.
Suler J1.
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1Department of Psychology, Rider University
While online, some people self-disclose or act out more frequently or intensely than they would in person. This article explores six factors that interact with each other in creating this online disinhibition effect: dissociative anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, solipsistic introjection, dissociative imagination, and minimization of authority. Personality variables also will influence the extent of this disinhibition. Rather than thinking of disinhibition as the revealing of an underlying "true self," we can conceptualize it as a shift to a constellation within self-structure, involving clusters of affect and cognition that differ from the in-person constellation.
Essentially it means that the anonymity of the internet allows people to become disconnected with themselves and act out with little to no fear of repercussions. Online persona varies immensely when compared to face to face interaction and also leads (from what I've seen and researched) to a sense of entitlement in the sense of "I'm right and there's nothing you can do about it" mentality that bleeds over into everyday life and eventually with face to face interactions with other people. There's a direct correlation with "hover parents" and the sense of entitlement that's being instilled into children through "participation ribbons" (i.e. no one gets first place or scores etc are not kept) and all children being seen through the eyes of parents as doing no wrong and being better than everyone else without merit. All of that leads to a false sense of superiority, entitlement and a craving for attention and is easiest to express through the anonymity of social media and online forums. Most online disagreements usually end up being brought down to their lowest common denominator which is idle threats and name calling. U.W. Madison did a great study on the topic but I can't find the link I used for one of my psych papers.
Suler J1.
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1Department of Psychology, Rider University
While online, some people self-disclose or act out more frequently or intensely than they would in person. This article explores six factors that interact with each other in creating this online disinhibition effect: dissociative anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, solipsistic introjection, dissociative imagination, and minimization of authority. Personality variables also will influence the extent of this disinhibition. Rather than thinking of disinhibition as the revealing of an underlying "true self," we can conceptualize it as a shift to a constellation within self-structure, involving clusters of affect and cognition that differ from the in-person constellation.
Essentially it means that the anonymity of the internet allows people to become disconnected with themselves and act out with little to no fear of repercussions. Online persona varies immensely when compared to face to face interaction and also leads (from what I've seen and researched) to a sense of entitlement in the sense of "I'm right and there's nothing you can do about it" mentality that bleeds over into everyday life and eventually with face to face interactions with other people. There's a direct correlation with "hover parents" and the sense of entitlement that's being instilled into children through "participation ribbons" (i.e. no one gets first place or scores etc are not kept) and all children being seen through the eyes of parents as doing no wrong and being better than everyone else without merit. All of that leads to a false sense of superiority, entitlement and a craving for attention and is easiest to express through the anonymity of social media and online forums. Most online disagreements usually end up being brought down to their lowest common denominator which is idle threats and name calling. U.W. Madison did a great study on the topic but I can't find the link I used for one of my psych papers.
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