THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Men are from earth … Women are from earth … Deal with it.”
Not long ago I ventured over to a familiar haunt of mine on the net and was surprised by the content. The author had chosen this medium to flame someone who had evidently done him wrong, and his choice of words on the subject were as we would say, “rather inappropriate.”
Really surprised me as I enjoyed this site quite a lot and it seemed so pointless and unnecessary. Later on in the day, he pulled the offensive material down, evidently having second thoughts about it.
When I happen onto a site that is laced with profanity, hate speech or downright rudeness, I tend to not hang around all that long. And taking it one step further, if you do this sort of thing on any kind of regular basis, you are not going to build up any kind of readership at all. It is a turn off, plain and simple.
At least that is my take on it.
If you write one of these things (blogs) with any kind of consistency you are eventually going to have to deal with people who do not share your opinions or outlook on life. That is a given. Every now then you find a terse message written to you that is hurtful, mean spirited, and downright nasty. It is the nature of the beast, and there are people who are going to avail themselves of the anonymity feature of the net.
One of the most alluring things about the Internet is the “Anonymity” of it. People feel as if they can come on here, and say or do anything they want, because virtually no one is going to track them down and politely shove their head in a wastebasket. I affectionately refer to these poor lost souls as “Trollers or Flamers.” They come in, take the shot, and then silently go away (most of the time).
There are after all, no penalty’s for being rude and stupid on the net.
Necessity is the Mother of Invention they say, so it had to happen, along comes NiceCritic.com. You go there and you will find a nice collection of pre-packaged “comments” for those who are shall we say, too timid to make their own. All the comments are courteous and polite to a point, regular flamers will not appreciate this, but for the timid and the shy amongst us, it is the perfect retreat.
“One academic study has shown that people correctly interpret the intended tone of an e-mail only about 50 percent of the time. Justin Kruger, a professor of marketing at New York University who co-authored the study in 2006, says NiceCritic is a bit like teasing. “Good intentions are often much less obvious to the other person than the teaser thinks,” Kruger says. “Even well-meaning individuals can be expected to have their well-meaning attempts go awry.”
From my own personal standpoint, I have often found this to be true.
Now there is hope for the passive-aggressive behavior impaired in our society. NiceCritic.com … We now have a site, where you can tell someone to go to hell (in a nice way), and actually have them looking forward in great anticipation to the trip.
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