I Hate Fake People
I lost a friend to suicide because of an online encounter and write this in memory of him.
Online communities
They promote a whole new community that prior to the Internet was not available. Although they can promote a vast array of positive qualities, they can also lead to multiple problems.
The theory of risk perception, an uncertainty in participating in an online community, is quite common, particularly when in the following online circumstances: performances/multiple aliases safety, psychological loss
Imagine two hoola-hoops. With the emersion of online communities there is a real life hoola-hoop and the other an online hoopla hoop These two hoops used to be completely separate but now they have swung together and overlap.
The problem with this overlap is that there is no distinction anymore between face-to-face interactions and virtual ones; they are one in the same. Shirky illustrates this by explaining a meeting. A group of people will sit in a meeting but they will all be connected into a virtual world also, using online communities.
A further problem is identity formation with the ambiguous real-virtual life mix. Identity formation in the real world consisted like one body one 10 identities?
The online communities allow you to create "as many electronic personae" as you please. This can lead to identity deception. Claiming to be someone you're not can be problematic with other online community users and for yourself. Creating a false identity can cause confusion and ambivalence about which identity is true.
A lack of trust regarding personal or professional information is problematic with questions of identity or information reciprocity. Often, if information is given to another user of an online community, one expects equal information shared back. However, this may not be the case or the other user may use the information given in harmful ways.
The construction of an individual's identity within an online community requires self-presentation. Self-presentation is the act of writing the self into being in which a person's identity is formed by what that person says, does, or shows. This also poses a potential problem as such self-representation is open for interpretation as well as misinterpretation. While an individual's online identity can be entirely constructed with a few of his/her own sentences, perceptions of this identity can be entirely misguided and incorrect.
Online communities present the problems of preoccupation, distraction, detachment, and desensitization to an individual. Ironically though, online support groups exist now. Basically any online community you can conceive, and if it currently does not it will in the near future or you could be the one to develop it. Online communities do present potential risks. Users must remember to be careful and remember that just because an online community feels safe does not mean it necessarily is.
What is wrong with real life ?
Why is moderation and admin tactless ?
Why are people more so judgemental online?
Anonymous websites bring out the worst in most people and they lose site of their true selves ?
Anonymous websites should have tougher regulations in place. Anyone can create a website. How would you feel signing up to a website that you later found out was a member that had stalked you?
What if Billy Madison created a new EP but did not disclose he was in fact Billy Madison?
The reason you sign up to these sites is that you are lacking something in your personal life. A lot of you are online all day everyday, have you got lives to live, did you not think about spending your time more constructively?
Do you enjoy the online arguments?
Do you enjoy watching people suffer and get bullied?
Do you trust your moderation team, you don't know who they are personally and might hold biased opinions?
It is possible because of the mental state of some they are blind to what lurks on websites where you have been given the chance to shout your own voice. You will get bullied and unless you have a thick skin you will became a target and nobody will care.
It is all about money and even the trolling creates traffic and just as in the daily news people thrive on drama.
I can't see myself staying for long here, EP was bad enough but I felt the overall intentions of EP was supportive. I have seen only jokers and attention seekers on SW thus far. With a mod/admin team that don't care and are too caught up in the moment of having a brand new toy to play with and having authority.
If that is what SW wants to be about - advertise it as such. A place to Joke, poke fun, form gangs and form multiple accounts to harass.
The replies to this will furthermore back up what I have just researched about online communities. People will gang up and say this is wrong and the admin won't agree because I am not saying how brilliant this site is.
But it is true.
Online communities
They promote a whole new community that prior to the Internet was not available. Although they can promote a vast array of positive qualities, they can also lead to multiple problems.
The theory of risk perception, an uncertainty in participating in an online community, is quite common, particularly when in the following online circumstances: performances/multiple aliases safety, psychological loss
Imagine two hoola-hoops. With the emersion of online communities there is a real life hoola-hoop and the other an online hoopla hoop These two hoops used to be completely separate but now they have swung together and overlap.
The problem with this overlap is that there is no distinction anymore between face-to-face interactions and virtual ones; they are one in the same. Shirky illustrates this by explaining a meeting. A group of people will sit in a meeting but they will all be connected into a virtual world also, using online communities.
A further problem is identity formation with the ambiguous real-virtual life mix. Identity formation in the real world consisted like one body one 10 identities?
The online communities allow you to create "as many electronic personae" as you please. This can lead to identity deception. Claiming to be someone you're not can be problematic with other online community users and for yourself. Creating a false identity can cause confusion and ambivalence about which identity is true.
A lack of trust regarding personal or professional information is problematic with questions of identity or information reciprocity. Often, if information is given to another user of an online community, one expects equal information shared back. However, this may not be the case or the other user may use the information given in harmful ways.
The construction of an individual's identity within an online community requires self-presentation. Self-presentation is the act of writing the self into being in which a person's identity is formed by what that person says, does, or shows. This also poses a potential problem as such self-representation is open for interpretation as well as misinterpretation. While an individual's online identity can be entirely constructed with a few of his/her own sentences, perceptions of this identity can be entirely misguided and incorrect.
Online communities present the problems of preoccupation, distraction, detachment, and desensitization to an individual. Ironically though, online support groups exist now. Basically any online community you can conceive, and if it currently does not it will in the near future or you could be the one to develop it. Online communities do present potential risks. Users must remember to be careful and remember that just because an online community feels safe does not mean it necessarily is.
What is wrong with real life ?
Why is moderation and admin tactless ?
Why are people more so judgemental online?
Anonymous websites bring out the worst in most people and they lose site of their true selves ?
Anonymous websites should have tougher regulations in place. Anyone can create a website. How would you feel signing up to a website that you later found out was a member that had stalked you?
What if Billy Madison created a new EP but did not disclose he was in fact Billy Madison?
The reason you sign up to these sites is that you are lacking something in your personal life. A lot of you are online all day everyday, have you got lives to live, did you not think about spending your time more constructively?
Do you enjoy the online arguments?
Do you enjoy watching people suffer and get bullied?
Do you trust your moderation team, you don't know who they are personally and might hold biased opinions?
It is possible because of the mental state of some they are blind to what lurks on websites where you have been given the chance to shout your own voice. You will get bullied and unless you have a thick skin you will became a target and nobody will care.
It is all about money and even the trolling creates traffic and just as in the daily news people thrive on drama.
I can't see myself staying for long here, EP was bad enough but I felt the overall intentions of EP was supportive. I have seen only jokers and attention seekers on SW thus far. With a mod/admin team that don't care and are too caught up in the moment of having a brand new toy to play with and having authority.
If that is what SW wants to be about - advertise it as such. A place to Joke, poke fun, form gangs and form multiple accounts to harass.
The replies to this will furthermore back up what I have just researched about online communities. People will gang up and say this is wrong and the admin won't agree because I am not saying how brilliant this site is.
But it is true.
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