Comments | thomasbear: Aaah the internet... seven shades of f****d up pro eating disorder glory

thomasbear

Aaah the internet... seven shades of f****d up pro eating disorder glory

Jun 20, 2009 19:30

Something very odd happened this evening, the internet equivalent of running your car into the back of a mini and a seven foot clown steps out or something...
I log onto my computer this evening and I get a "hi" message on my Windows Messenger by some random stranger with a user name that I don't recognise. This isn't unusual since I rarely chat ( Read more... )

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neonfaerie June 20 2009, 15:09:45 UTC

I couldn't agree with you more. You've expressed many of my discomforts with online culture more succintly than I ever could.

vivienne_s June 21 2009, 03:32:45 UTC

I dont think its very fair of you to write things like ''you've got a messsed up outlook on life nad self iamge, that's what you've got
''. She wasnt being nasty to you, and can be a part of any group she wants its not for you to judge. Some people find great comfort & support within those groups and sometimes its the only place they can get it.

phroggiepuddles June 21 2009, 08:07:15 UTC

So someone comes up to you on the street randomly and your not allowed or even obliged to respond in a negative fashion if that approach and consequent conversation is non-sequiter, random and potentially offensive?

Sure it's a tough comment, but politeness was out the door in the 2nd line of that persons conversation.

vivienne_s June 21 2009, 08:50:21 UTC

reamo June 21 2009, 03:39:24 UTC

Tom, I hope you realise the irony in your little talk about internet trolls, as in the chat incident that began this post, YOU were in fact the Internet troll.

:)

reamo June 21 2009, 03:40:18 UTC

Also, I love that quote from your dad, brilliant!

phroggiepuddles June 21 2009, 08:08:57 UTC

There was a Boston Legal episode about pro-eating disorder groups... I figured they got the source material from some rare crackpot source and amped it up for TV's sake.

Sadly, truth is stranger than the fiction - especially if Bill Shatner is involved!!!

thomasbear June 21 2009, 09:22:12 UTC

Law & Order too (I wonder who did ti first: L&O or BL?)
I figure the google ranking for what were presumably once rare as hen's teeth websites subsequently went up as a mazillion people subsequently hopped online to check that they really did exist.