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On the other hand I have never found that big of an issue with said "toxicity". Getting backstabbed in guild environments in MMOs, hurling insults at each other
by hie2neiL 9y ago
On the other hand I have never found that big of an issue with said "toxicity". Getting backstabbed in guild environments in MMOs, hurling insults at each other in counterstrike or on IRC, flamewars over irrelevant technical points or many flavors of personal attacks on 4chan have always just been background noise to me.
Experiences may differ, but having grown up in the wild west of the internet this is normal to me and therefore I just don't get how it could stress someone out all that much or why people would voluntarily expose themselves like that.
Of course over the years I have also learned to wear many hats and not stick my real life identity to everything. Data hygiene is important for your sanity.
In that case of twitter I have 3 different accounts. One just for following artists where I harvest their images. One for occasionally having a conversation about tech things and one for video games. None of them are directly associated with my real identity, although with some sleuthing you could notice to which github account my tech one corresponds.
- sp332 9y ago>In that case of twitter I have 3 different accounts.... None of them are directly associated with my real identity So, you don't have close friends of business contacts on Twitter, but you wonder why you don't feel stress when twitter is used to attack you? I think if you were a more serious user, you would feel the pinch more when the network gets hostile.
- cirgue 9y ago> Experiences may differ, but having grown up in the wild west of the internet this is normal to me and therefore I just don't get how it could stress someone out all that much or why people would voluntarily expose themselves like that. Most people didn't grow up in the wild west of the internet. Most people carry their intuitions about social interaction over from the real world. Tech people seem to chronically underestimate just how monumentally ill-prepared society was for the ubiquity of smartphones and always-on communication.