Tuesday, February 3, 2015

BlogPost 3 : Debunking the Troll's mind.

The internet is useful nowadays others used it for games, research and stuff but for the Internet trolls they are using it for trolling. Well, trolling is a new internet sensation throughout the world wide web and you can see "trolls" in online games, Social medias and other forum base websites. I have many encounters with the Internet trolls, they are so witty and literally annoying and for others they are nightmare. So, what is their motive to do such thing?

I read the article, "Inside the Mind of an Internet Troll", by Kim Fischer. The article is about what are the mentality of an Internet troll and why they are trolling random strangers in the internet and what motivates them to do such thing.

According to Gillingham(Admitted Internet Troll),"The internet is just full of people with too much time on their hands or people who are looking for a reason to be upset at something and that's where I think I come in. These people are looking for a reason to be upset, and I will gladly give them one."

In other words the internet has many users they have what we called "own taste" and some person are too gullible what they are reading on the internet. I agree with Gillingham, internet has bunch of retards who is easily to deceive what they are reading, the best example is the satire news which is many people will believe and they have been trolled big time.

I read another article about this topic, "What is trolling, and why do we behave so differently online?", by Stephen Webster. The summary of this article is that in real life we have set of rules and norms that make us good person but on the internet there is no boundaries of set of rules and norms that we became a troll that literally can do anything online.
According to Webster, "Seeing other people behaving in the same way may help to normalise and maintain what is unpleasant behaviour - so it’s cognitive dissonance in action."

In other words Internet trolls tend to troll someone if their beliefs doesn't fit on the person they are trolling. Basically they troll you because you don't have the same point of view I agree what Webster said because I have encountered many trolls and what I have experienced is if they disagree with you they will keep pushing their views until you submit.

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