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Originally Posted by Sliver
I don't want to be better.
Like, I enjoy how you can be less filtered on the Internet. Say what you want without worrying about feelings as much as you do in real life. We spend most of our days speaking in a professional way, pretending nobody is dumb, humouring stupid opinions/suggestions/contributions because you'll look like the ####### if you reject somebody's dumb idea as dumb if you're, like, in a meeting or something.
On the Internet, you can just unleash an unfiltered paragraph on a guy who just said something stupid. No chains. It's freeing and even therapeutic. I don't want to speak like a professional on here. It's not Linked In.
So I guess we're never going to find a version of the Internet that's just for us unless you start your own site. I imagine Bingo and the mods like a place where there is no swearing, hence we have a site that has no swearing in spite of the majority preferring to be able to speak unmuzzled instead of like 11-year-olds.
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With everything we know and are discovering about online engagement and social media impact on mental health I can't justify why anyone would
want to act like that towards a perfect stranger. Just because you can't see or feel the affects they are still there, it's just someone else on the other end turning away from a screen that has to drag them around offline.
Having come from that place and learning to not take it so seriously I understand how some people don't have that capacity. Hence why I try my best not to put that energy out in the ether in the first place.
Being thoughtful and courteous doesn't have to be professional, and it doesn't mean we can't disagree. You can ####ing talk however you want to ####ing talk, just don't be a #### about it.
Empathy is a virtue.