A writer's anti-rant rant

[niky]

Duplicate post!

Merge naman... oh... but I like this^^^ title better...

http://tsikot.yehey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40707

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Very good writing. Very interesting, too. A lot of people up here can stand to learn from it...

I've been on the internet for quite a long time, myself... I think I started foruming almost ten years ago, but on a more literary forum, than this.

While anonimity can mean freedom from the social restraints that make many people shy and reserved off-line, I have noticed the trend, in the past five years, for people to use anonimity as a shield to hide behind, and to lash out at other people from time to time.

Hell... I've never had more aggravation online than at tsikot... on many American boards, boorishness is a given, and the ****ing language used there is par for the course. We have flame wars, but they're milder, simply because most of us don't take it personally... except one time some guy called me an idiot... ouch... I took that one to heart... damn ultra-fundamentalist right-winger...

But here... it seems that Pinoys have a lot of pent up aggression, and use the internet to let it out... I had a chat some time ago with one person who was very upset with some tsikoteers... he said: "Bakit ganyan... hindi nalang harap-harapan...". "Di nila kilala yung tao, tapos ganyan ang sasabihin."

I told him... that's the internet. You really can't control some of these people, and the anonimity makes them more brazen, more able to joke or insult in this crude manner. The best way to deal with it is to not take it personally. They're just pissing wind. At the same time, I promised to ask one of the mods to look into it.

I guess that's a challenge to us... to only say the right thing (there's a difference between fair criticism and out-and-out bashing), and to stand up for what we believe. Which is how this person actually found me... because I've never hidden behind an alias, and for anyone who needs to talk to me face to face, I'm available. I hoped I helped, and I think he feels better about it now.