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It's not the anonymity, it's the lack of consequences. In big cities, people are casually rude in traffic even though they can see each others' faces; but they'
by zeteo 13y ago
It's not the anonymity, it's the lack of consequences. In big cities, people are casually rude in traffic even though they can see each others' faces; but they'll probably never meet again. The clerk at the DMV treats you as shitty as they can get away with. By contrast, an anonymous seller on eBay may go to great lengths to make you happy beyond the terms of service, just because your review will stay with them.
- nsxwolf 13y agoLook at sites that use Facebook for comments. People have no problem posting utterly insane and threatening things with their real name, with a picture of them smiling with their kids.
- showerst 13y agoI'd say that happens a lot _less_ on facebook though compared to a site like reddit, because more people are cognizant that they're using their real life identity. People also post pictures of their shiny new credit cards to twitter, it's not because they don't care about fraud, they're just not aware of how twitter works. Some small portion of people really don't care and will gladly threaten to rape you under their real name, but I'm guessing that the majority of the ones you see are people who just aren't very internet saavy.