Immature people

Why do you see it as immature? In the real world there is a need to be tolerant of people as you have to exist in the same space. The internet allows us to filter people out so we only come across those we want to. Some people want to be on a site with a range of people, opinions and beliefs, others simply want to spend time with people like them and so block anyone outside of that. It’s not immature it’s simply choosing how you want to use this site and who you want to be around. I used to get into arguments on here and it would upset me u til someone said to me, why have those people as part of your experience? You can choose to only have fun and simply only allow yourself to see people who are also just here for fun. It made me see the block button in a whole new way. You can’t be offended if people block, it’s simply there way of controlling their experience of the site, it’s not a reflection on you

It's due to the unnatural nature of communication via social media and the internet, don't you think? It has caused people to think their own opinions are vastly more important than they really are, and that everyone must agree with them; also that they have some sort of right never to be offended. I believe it's been a huge cause of polarisation and social division ever since the advent of blogging sites and social media. In reality, nobody can hope to agree even with their closest friends else on every issue, yet the internet magnifies prejudices and differences of opinion to the extent that they obscure everything else about a person.

I say this as someone who often finds disagreements on particular issues difficult to ignore, but I am aware that it's the internet that's causing me to feel that way.

I don't get it either, that emotional immaturity of grown adults. Makes me think it stems from fragility of character and no conviction in themselves aka low self esteem/insecurity..? Plus perception is a very tricky thing on social media.

Disclaimer: Not saying I'm even remotely perfect. Merely giving my view point, trying to understand.

Unfortunately, this intolerance or lack of ability to deal with others in a mature manner, is slowly transferring toward real life interactions. It’s like people have no clue how to interact with each other anymore.

I just don’t want to answer certain questions personally. For personal reasons. Sometimes I have friends that think I need to open up or share my feelings, which I do, but sometimes it can get to be a bit much. Pestered or annoyed or something else into talking about something I don’t want to talk about. I had a friend who asked me for an entire class to tell her what was up, and another who won’t let me go to sleep if I won’t tell them why I don’t want to talk to them right tf now. Sometimes people can be too much. But I agree with you for the most part.

Yes, I know there is a very nasty post about me, that I’m blocked from seeing.

It tells me a lot about the person who wrote it though.

I move on and have better things to do with my life.

Unfortunately some people block you because you don’t answer immediately.
A TOTAL lack of respect!

I would appreciate the opportunity to explain (in case of genuine misunderstandings) + if required, to apologise.

if someone offends me, i will simply give them a chance to apologise,otherwise i might arhive them, only persistant ones who pester me may get blocked, but that is very rare. Obvious fakes or men pretending to be female are the usual suspects though.

Maybe they enjoy the power of being able to do something they can’t ever do in their real life. I don’t think I’ve ever blocked anyone, not had a reason to.

They just love being in their little bubble of people who are exactly like them in every single way because anyone who's different is gross. I can't stand people like that either.

Insecurity. They're usually worried that they'll be out of their depth and embarrassed in some way by further questions. You dodged a bullet.

Sometimes people send me a nasty reply in a post and then block me before I have a chance to read it!

Oh my goodness I wish I could block in real life. That’s like literally my dream.

I think it comes down to respect and lack of knowledge 😊

Completely agree with this frustration.

there's a lot of that going on here.

I agree

I think to randomly block someone for no apparent reason is a generational thing for some people to do. People from older generations tend to be more tolerant of everyone around them, meaning they wouldn't typically block someone because they only associate with people who look like them.

Anyone born in the last 20 years however, are cut from a different cloth than the rest of us insofar as their social tolerances go. I have found that people who were born with a silver cellphone in their mouth who would always have their face planted in a cellphone screen during all waking hours, tend to be exceptionally socially inept in their real world outside the internet. This is because they don't know how to interact with human life in the real world because their real world only exists on the internet, not outside in real society.

Blocking people for no apparent reason on a site like SW becomes a way of coping with people when placed in unfamiliar territory of group socialization.

I block in real life as well