I wish I could avoid people that are chronically online

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And no I don’t mean people that use socials or check their phone every minute for notifications. I mean the people that truly live on the Internet. The people that think that checking your profile to try to find something to throw back in your face. The people that can’t see that the Internet is not a representation of what real people are like. The people that obsess over celebrities. These are usually the people that make me say that I “hate” people.

Just the other day, my best friend responded to two women that were going off in a comment section and just saying terrible and miserable things, very pick me. When they saw my best friend’s response, they went to her page to try to cyberbully her. 🙄 I went tf off on them with a comment each and then they tried to do the same thing to me on my page, but I’m not one for back and forths sometimes, so I didn’t respond back.

I don’t know why people will look on YOUR profile to find stuff to try to attack you with. If I really cared about what some random stranger on the Internet thinks about me, my profile would be private and I would never post myself. It’s like they forget that I’M the one who MADE my profile. If I was ashamed or hated anything about myself, the Internet would not know about it. Because I’m not like them. Most of the people that do that have private profiles and don’t show their faces. It’s very telling. Because the Internet is second nature to them, it’s another home. They are comfortable on it and when met with discomfort, they lash out.

Whenever I feel like the Internet’s misery is getting to me, I take breaks. Sometimes for months at a time. I feel like if more people did that, maybe there wouldn’t be so many miserable curmudgeons on it.

Comments

  1. headpeon Avatar

    Complete and total props for use of the word ‘curmudgeon’.

    I take breaks, too. Weeks, sometimes months.

    I think it’s good for our mental health, and it gives us a chance to realize exactly what you said: the internet isn’t an accurate representation of people. Real live in-the-flesh people are an accurate representation of people.

  2. IPlayTheInBedGame Avatar

    It sucks,  but you can’t feed the trolls.

  3. Angry_Sparrow Avatar

    This post feels like a good place to let people know that you can now how your post and comment history on reddit from those lovely souls that go digging through your profile to find something to bully you with.

    It feels like the internet is getting more and more cruel. People never used to browse user history like that.