How did people get so mean on the internet.

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I'll play devil's advocate here and say that not only the rude are encouraged by anonymity, but also people who make careless and irrational posts that sometimes draw the ire of the less-than-patient.

Basically 11 year old me, when I first joined GBAtemp. Didn't know how to use the site so I somehow managed to double post threads in USN asking what the best NDS flashcart was. Needless to say, I managed to incur the wrath of some people. I though I had done nothing wrong, but looking back on it now I was rather ignorant and cringe-y, to say the least. I could see why people would get annoyed when they have to deal with children on the internet.

I appreciate the more patient members and staff, as they welcomed and comforted me when I thought everyone hated me, and they're the reason why I'm still around on GBAtemp to this day.
 

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Like most of you said, anonymity coupled with a sense of insecurity and entitlement makes people assholes on the web. People with dual personalities.

I am from Boston myself and I'm a real asshole in real life and very proud of it because I live in a city of assholes. Just yesterday I cut a dozens of cars off when I swerved from the fast lane all the way to the right and I stopped completley because I had to pick someone up.
At least three cars went mental and started screaming at me "hey asshole" and I simply said "move the fuck along people, I'm picking someone up. Move along ! "
 

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I try to be as nice as possible most of the time BUT some people still think I am an asshole as I try not to lie and tell my real opinion even if it is against the majority.
Sometimes it is only because my English is not perfect and I do mistakes which make it looks stupid or ignorant or whatever.

But yeah many stupid people online,
Just recently some weird Nazi wrote to me on Facebook and was offending me in every possible way trough the messaging system saying I am not a real German using foreign signs for my name (my FB name is in Katakana so that not every idiot finds me), hat I should leave Germany, that he would beat me up if he saw me and stuff like that XD
 

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When I went out Trick or Treating with my sister, niece and nephews last year.(Yes, I know I'm too old, but dressing up is so much fun!) I went out as the Grim Reaper, because he looks cool!

When I was out, I realized nobody could see my face or know who I am, so my inner asshole came alive! I started photo bombing people, and made a lot of unattractive girls(srsly, not even a single looker) very mad at me. I also seen little kids, and scared them, and made them flee from me. It was quite the fun night for me! I guess the second post in this thread is kinda true :P

Then at the end, I dropped my phone, and the screen shattered! I guess karma! :(
 

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For those of us that have been here online since it's birth, we're tired of seeing noobs post the same B.S., day in, day out. Something's gotta give man, everyone has a limit. The sheer stupidity I see daily drives me up the wall. Unchecked extreme feminism running rampant, oversaturated/overused memes, and kids today are flipping their "genders" they got from tumblr like it's the Wheel of Fortune. Luckily we have the ability to be anonymous keyboard warriors, and face no consequences in real life for it.
 

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For those of us that have been here online since it's birth, we're tired of seeing noobs post the same B.S., day in, day out. Something's gotta give man, everyone has a limit. The sheer stupidity I see daily drives me up the wall. Unchecked extreme feminism running rampant, oversaturated/overused memes, and kids today are flipping their "genders" they got from tumblr like it's the Wheel of Fortune. Luckily we have the ability to be anonymous keyboard warriors, and face no consequences in real life for it.
well some have the consequence of not having a social life due to "too much internet" though
 

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Anonymity is the number one cause of people acting like dicks.

Internet + keyboard seems to amplify the effect exponentially also.....
 

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Because... anonymity?
I don't care if your IP is showed/logged in 99% of every website that exists(I use TOR on most sites), it does not matter, the internet is based on anonymity.
With this, people can say what they desire without consequences because they are behind a monitor.
And so are you, so you shoudn't really be worried/offended by what anyone says about you on the Internet
 

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