Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online?

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No, fuck off, how very dare you suggest such a thing you horrid bastard you, just you wait, I’m going to punch you in the elbow and knock over your second-favourite house plant for insinuating such lies

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Hey. You don't talkt to op like this you fucking degenerate piece of shit, we're all being nice to each other!

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I've blocked both of you idiots

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“Why are online discussions about politics more hostile than offline discussions?
A popular answer argues that human psychology is tailored for face-to-face interaction and people’s behavior therefore changes for the worse in impersonal online discussions…
Across eight studies, leveraging cross-national surveys and behavioral experiments (total N = 8,434), we test the mismatch hypothesis but only find evidence for limited selection effects.
Instead, hostile political discussions are the result of status-driven individuals who are drawn to politics and are equally hostile both online and offline.
Finally, we offer initial evidence that online discussions feel more hostile, in part, because the behavior of such individuals is more visible online than offline.”

This fits with our understanding of personality disorders, which is that they are a small percentage of our society—around 10.5 percent, according to the recent DSM-5-TR.3

I try to avoid all politics online because it's all raging and it's honestly depressing that 10.5% can dominate a space like that.

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Then you probably won't like the thought that an even smaller percentage of people who think they need to get ever richer and control ever more aspects of ever more people's lives are basically ruining our offline world.

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I would prefer a star trek utopia, that's for sure.

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What a terrible headline. All of us? No. Next.

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Yes. Next question, you SOB!

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yes and i don’t think it’s limited to politics either.

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TL;DR: It's the .mls' fault. They're assholes all the time, but we don't see them offline because they don't have jobs

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No fucking shit we are. How did you crack that nut, Einstein?

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I think there are two sides to this. Yes, online aggression has probably peaked in recent years with the rise of worldwide pro far-right misinformation campaigns, no argument there. They were specifically targeted at the people more vulnerable to buy into hate speech propaganda.

On the other hand, I have personally noticed more constructive discussions, even after I deleted most of my anti-social media accounts and substantialy decreased my usage of Internet forums in general. It seems there's some positive trend in the middle of all that.

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Not my experience. Just try to post some slightly unpopular opinion and good luck with the virtue signaling, whatever the topic is, and which is mostly done for fake internet points, I bet.

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“Virtue signaling”

Hmmm that’s telling language.

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What does "telling language" means, in this context? I've never heard that. Not a native speaker.

If you are implying that I'm defending "unpopular" stuff such as racism, sexism, or any kind of right-wing "free speech", you're plainly wrong. I'm talking about much less sensitive topics (technology, for instance). As an example, I've been attacked for saying that I profoundly dislike Mozilla and that I don't care if the disappeared (they should, actually).

Give your imagination a rest.

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