Quotes About Online behavior

Do people you respect or care about leave hateful comments on the Internet?" (No.) "Do you really want to engage with people who have infinite time on their hands?" (No.)

When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.

The Internet foments outrageous behavior in part because it is a 'gray area' for social interactions.

There are a lot of people who are overly judgemental on the Internet.

Look at social media. I could post something about saving orphans and I'd be attacked as a sex-trafficking pedophile. People are such animals online.

her and Walter on to the internet for people to gawp at and to judge makes her feel queasy. But she's happy for others to do so. She's a consummate lurker. She never posts, she never comments, she never likes. She just looks.

When the vast majority of strangers you interact with are trolls on social media, it slowly begins to chip away at your love for humanity.

A mob pelting pilloried wrongdoers with rotten vegetables would seem to have little in common with one doing the same with 140-character invective, except of course the most important thing: the belief that they are in the right, and are even doing good by making the object of their contempt feel really, really bad.

The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.

It's just—in my opinion—the Internet is a place where people end up making themselves feel awful, or hurting other people. And everyone pretends." His throat jerked as he swallowed. "Everyone tries to put the best versions of themselves across. To fake it. And when they're not doing that, they're sitting behind their screens, passing judgment and feeling superior to whoever they think's being sexist or racist that day.

S.M."Social Media or Social Menace?I'll leave it to you to work out.

When it comes to things like social media, the only time I go crazy is when my kids get affected, like when they get someone stupid saying something ignorant to them about me because they are babies.

Netiquette makes being a 'goody goody' online cool for everyone because we all have to get along. NetworkEtiquette.net

It's as if a psychological norm is being established whereby comments left online are part of a video game and not real life. It's as if we've all forgotten that there's a real person on the other end, reading and being hurt by our vitriol.

You are better, so be better. Be kinder and be bigger, instead of adding to and authoring more words of hate online. Message, market and respond in love. Consider staying away from messaging, marketing and responding in fear.

My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

It is proper #netiquette to be conservative in messages you send and liberal in messages you receive. NetworkEtiquette.net

As anyone who follows me on Twitter will know, I'm fairly robust in my views on there. I get next to nothing in the way of trolling. Most women I know who regularly come close to expressing an opinion get trolled constantly. This is a men-on-women issue. Guys are pretty much doing it to the girls.

But then Vega snapped in a loud, clear voice, "My guess is they clicked 'like' because there's no 'I fucked her' button.

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.

Bad temper is bad temper even in the apparent privacy of your own hard drive, and harsh and unjust words, when released into the wild, rampage around and do real damage. And as for the practice of saying mean and untrue things while hiding behind a pseudonym—well, if I get a letter like that it goes straight in the bin. But