Also, I don't think circle jerks are an internet phenomenon.... people were bitchy, catty, hypocritical drama queens before the internets. Only now, we can sit back and watch even if we don't know any of the participants.
People will be assholes and pretenders no matter where they are. Here it's just much easier to pretend you're not a fat chick or that you are actually a 15 year old virgin (as apposed to being a 45 year old man).
Not to mention, of course that the drama is also further reaching, as I know this conversation is taking place across two continents and at least three countries. (Rather cool, though really.)
"Not to mention, of course that the drama is also further reaching, as I know this conversation is taking place across two continents and at least three countries. (Rather cool, though really.)"
I've never really been able to figure out if it is a good or bad thing but the internet has certainly made my world much smaller.
Here it's just much easier to pretend you're not a fat chick or that you are actually a 15 year old virgin (as apposed to being a 45 year old man).
but it's more fun to pretend you *are* a fat chick or a 45 yr old man...
i've never noticed any more shittiness on the internet than in real life, either, myself.
the same people who manage to fuck up over and over again while everyone tells them "it's not your fault" managed it IRL. if you suggest that they might have something to do with their own problems they stop speaking to you and go talk to their other friends instead, but IME they did exactly the same in real life, and instead of hearing about it from the cutnpaste fairy you heard about it from the mouth of someone on the edges of the group.
maybe i just knew some particularly shitty people in real life...
"Also, I don't think circle jerks are an internet phenomenon.... people were bitchy, catty, hypocritical drama queens before the internets. Only now, we can sit back and watch even if we don't know any of the participants."
Well, yeah. It's not like the internet invented this self-important graceless retardation.
I would postulate, however, that there is something within the greasy gears of the internets that encourages this totally bullshit behaviour.
I guess I just really hope the answer is not simply that people are inherently self-righteous dickheads whose behaviour in polite society is only inhibited by the very real risk of a good old fashioned stomping.
But I also watch other people's movies.
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Also, I don't think circle jerks are an internet phenomenon.... people were bitchy, catty, hypocritical drama queens before the internets. Only now, we can sit back and watch even if we don't know any of the participants.
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People will be assholes and pretenders no matter where they are. Here it's just much easier to pretend you're not a fat chick or that you are actually a 15 year old virgin (as apposed to being a 45 year old man).
Not to mention, of course that the drama is also further reaching, as I know this conversation is taking place across two continents and at least three countries. (Rather cool, though really.)
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as I know this conversation is taking place across two continents
and at least three countries. (Rather cool, though really.)"
I've never really been able to figure out if it is a good or bad
thing but the internet has certainly made my world much smaller.
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but it's more fun to pretend you *are* a fat chick or a 45 yr old man...
i've never noticed any more shittiness on the internet than in real life, either, myself.
the same people who manage to fuck up over and over again while everyone tells them "it's not your fault" managed it IRL. if you suggest that they might have something to do with their own problems they stop speaking to you and go talk to their other friends instead, but IME they did exactly the same in real life, and instead of hearing about it from the cutnpaste fairy you heard about it from the mouth of someone on the edges of the group.
maybe i just knew some particularly shitty people in real life...
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people were bitchy, catty, hypocritical drama queens before the
internets. Only now, we can sit back and watch even if we don't
know any of the participants."
Well, yeah. It's not like the internet invented this self-important
graceless retardation.
I would postulate, however, that there is something within the greasy
gears of the internets that encourages this totally bullshit behaviour.
I guess I just really hope the answer is not simply that people are
inherently self-righteous dickheads whose behaviour in polite society
is only inhibited by the very real risk of a good old fashioned stomping.
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