Quotes About Online behavior

The good and bad thing about online trolling: it's not on the street, and it's not on the street! The good: nothing physical erupts; the bad: there are no brakes to stop it.

It's so cheap to store all data. It's cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change their behavior because they know anything they say online can be used against them in the future.

Thanks to the Internet, people we might have only suspected of being idiots can now give us ample evidence.

Every time you go to a party and take a picture and post that picture to Facebook, you're being a rat. You're being a narc.

We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or 6 real friends.

Firing insults anonymously behind the keys of a message board, slandering other people's beliefs or opinions, this happens on a daily basis in my comment section or on my feed. Cyber-bullying and, further, online social ignorance, is a very real problem, typically without any real consequence.

Comment threads are the new therapy for people. They just go and post the worst things they can think of because they feel bad, and then other people start attacking them, and then they attack back.

I don't think there are many people out there - except, perhaps, the odd Twitter troll who knows no better - who believes that racially abusing people or threatening people is the right way to go.

A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.

For me it is very difficult to understand the mind frame of somebody who would take time to write something hateful or negative on anybody's page for any reason.

Social media is not the place to work out your problems with people.

I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.

Don't promote negativity online and expect people to treat you with positivity in person.

What concerned me the most about Twitter wasn't just the violent vitriol I was exposed to regularly. I was more worried about what it was doing to me as a person and how it was changing my overall perception of humanity.

I think just living in the day and age of technology, whether you're a celebrity or a normal human being, you're always worried about your privacy. And I think as long as you behave, you know you're OK. I think anyone worries about that.

I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

the vast majority of the people who trolled us online were acting out, due to crushing disappointment with their own miserable lives.

I don't like how social media allows people to be so mean and say really hurtful, negative things. It's just not cool.

Most trolls are seeking attention by trying to get a response. So best is to ignore.

If you wouldn't join in a mugging you saw taking place on a street, if you wouldn't physically attack or verbally abuse and cruelly insult an acquaintance in your school, why would you ever ridicule or hurl vicious and hurtful words at a person online?

The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.

Twitter is just full of silly little people enjoying being sarcastic and rude and mocking.

When you've been on Instagram and Twitter long enough, you know how mean people can be.

Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.