Internet Trolling
- jamiejlanier
- Dec 11, 2015
- 3 min read
I had a very negative and disturbing experience on a Facebook group this morning that has put me into a really weak state of mind. And I can't seem to shake it off. I wanted to just write about the internet phenomenon that is trolling. Trolling is when ordinary everyday cowardly people who have nothing else to do with themselves sit behind a keyboard and write the most disturbing and angry things to a complete stranger just to create chaos and angst. They send their vicious bright red thought bubbles from their computer to another persons. Essentially just so they can get a rise out of you. So they can see you stumble, get angry, cry. They truly must lead such pathetic lives that they think verbally abusing someone else makes them a bigger and better person. They must have something missing from their lives. Maybe their parents were constantly putting them down. Telling them they can't do something. Maybe they were always bombarded with negative comments. Perhaps they were bullied for being different or over weight or wearing glasses. Now they feel the need to return the favor to the world by verbally abusing strangers.
They sit on their lazy pathetic indignant ignorant butts with their dirty fingers poised above the keyboard ready to pounce on someone - anyone who has a difference of opinion. Someone they believe to be weak and vulnerable that they can get a rise out of. These people enrage me. They claim that because you are on the internet that you must have a thick skin and deal with it. How so? Why does it have to be that way? Can't you control yourself? Don't you think before you post something mean and inappropriate? Doesn't your mothers voice come into your mind and tell you that's not a nice thing to say? What has happened in these people's lives that they feel the need to hurt other's with their words? I've been writing my entire life and I've never used my words to purposely try and cut someone's insides. It doesn't make me feel good putting other people down. I mean I can't even yell at my parents dog without feeling badly. I can't imagine writing something hateful JUST to make someone cry.
The energy that it must take to be such a pessimistic, impassioned, irate tirant piece of crap is just astounding. Human energy is a very real and very powerful thing. A single thought can bring down countries and mountains. Typing hateful words could easily destroy our world. I'm in no way a perfect person. I have a short temper. I'm messy and unorganized. I can be lazy. But one thing I'm not is mean. I can't purposely hurt people - either physically or mentally. The negative energy that people put out in their hateful words on the internet creates this black hole. The negative energy fester's and grows like mold on a shower curtain spreading from one person to the next. And since everyone handles this kind of abuse differently some people can shake it off and others internalize it. Then they end up taking it out on their children or other unsuspecting people which starts the cycle all over again.
I realize preaching to you to be kind to others and do unto others is very hippie dippy but if you don't start now will you ever? Will your children follow in your footsteps? Will someone else's child bully and abuse your child because that's what they think is the normal thing to do? Trolling on the internet is bullying. It's adults bullying other adults. It teaches our children that bullying is okay and is the norm. It creates and feeds the never ending life cycle of bullying.
I will never tolerate my boys bullying others either as adults or as kids. It's pathetic and sad. We should be building each other up not tearing each other down. And to anyone who thinks that trolling is fun and just something to do in their past time. Please message me and I'll be happy to give you my number and you can call me and you can troll me over the phone in person. Then we will see just how big of a person you are after talking to me in person for 5 minutes. I promise you won't win.
*steps off soap box*
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