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> I always found it amazing how vastly different internet communities are from real-world communities. Skim through just about any YouTube video and the comment
by wolfgke 9y ago
> I always found it amazing how vastly different internet communities are from real-world communities. Skim through just about any YouTube video and the comments are filled with some of the most vile garbage. We'd all be murdering each other had this been the case in real-world communities. But, instead, we think twice about what we tell others we meet face-to-face and we deal with the impact of our actions right then and there.
If you come to this conclusion, you are living in a deep filter bubble in your real life. I often say to people (in Germany): Just go to work by tram at a later time (when hardly any people use the tram to go to work) and you will see how large amounts of "ordinary" people really are/look like.
- jononor 9y agoHow are they like?
- wolfgke 9y agoLet's say it this way: People you would prefer not to have to deal with in your life. If I give a more direct descriptions, the "guards of political corretness" come out their holes...
- norlys 9y agoI'm imagining something like an anti-Klu-Klux-Klan demonstration on the train... Let's not make a political discussion out of this, shall we?
- watwut 9y agoI was in late night tram regularly in Germany and no one bothered me, no one talked to me inappropriately etc. There were no fights or other aggressive behavior. I have met some young groups apparently going from party a couple of times, but they mostly laughed noisily which hardly qualifies as some kind of horrible behavior. Overall, it was quite boring experience. So maybe your local culture is somehow worst then the rest of Germany?