Peckapowa
Noob
So lately i have been doing some self-reflecting...
sometimes on the internet i become a nastier person than i ever am in "real-life"(not saying i am satan, but i make mistakes), and I think that is dangerous because attitude is infectious towards other people and towards your own perception of the world. In reality, i try to be extra thankful and courteous to people i encounter, but on the internet i can be quick to prey on another person angrily (specifically when i am losing).
There are a lot of facctors that play a role in this. There is this whole attitude where the internet isn't "srs bizness," it has it's own social paradigm. now part of this is true, and i don't think people should get worked up over the internet, however what you say can effect people. On the other hand, there many distances created by the internet(similar to cars i might add) in which your mind can be allowed to "dehumanize" another person. There is the paradigm of the internet, there is the fact they have their own artificial persona, there is the safety and distance between, and most importantly they aren't living and breathing in front of you. That doesn't mean you cannot effect that person. And as i stated, negativity is infectious, violence whether emotional or physical has a way of perpetuating itself.
(now i am putting this in parentheses to explain this because i don't want to overly saturate this late night brain fart post, but i think the way violence perpetuates itself is that victims who are traumatized have a tendency to reduce the stress of that trauma through exposure to similar stimuli because that exposure reduces the strength of that stimulus(see later mere exposure), also they feel empowered rahter than being a helpless victim....empathy can incite anger because it's effect on consciousness is so strong that your mind rages at it defensively because it's too overstimulating [which is kind of funny because we view walling of your emotions as strong])
Forgive me for right now i am sleepy, and my grammar might be off. Sometimes i "subconsciously" utilize the internet as means of stress transfer. I utilize anger as a vessel for my stress, but it is not a long-term solution to the causal factors of that stress. Since is it short term, it means that stress can be replenished and in order to combat it i utilize the same tactic repeatedly. This could potentially cause a problem where i become "addictive" or "dependent" on anger to alleviate stress. Keep in mind this process has the potential to exponentiate because of the "mere exposure" effect. The mere exposure effect is an advertising term i learned where when you experience something once, the second time experiencing it is drastically reduced due to experience or the "mere exposure effect". So if i am merely exposed to my own anger, overtime i would require more of it to alleviate stress, so the general direction of my life could gravitate to that state in a perpetual spiral.
Now, if i victimize other people with my own anger, they will in tune perpetuate that anger and i will create an angrier world without much happiness. It has a way of snowballing out of control. So i guess, i should find better ways to reduce stress and in general focus on long-term solutions.
Sorry if i used TYM as a thought billboard... I don't know if i am normal
sometimes on the internet i become a nastier person than i ever am in "real-life"(not saying i am satan, but i make mistakes), and I think that is dangerous because attitude is infectious towards other people and towards your own perception of the world. In reality, i try to be extra thankful and courteous to people i encounter, but on the internet i can be quick to prey on another person angrily (specifically when i am losing).
There are a lot of facctors that play a role in this. There is this whole attitude where the internet isn't "srs bizness," it has it's own social paradigm. now part of this is true, and i don't think people should get worked up over the internet, however what you say can effect people. On the other hand, there many distances created by the internet(similar to cars i might add) in which your mind can be allowed to "dehumanize" another person. There is the paradigm of the internet, there is the fact they have their own artificial persona, there is the safety and distance between, and most importantly they aren't living and breathing in front of you. That doesn't mean you cannot effect that person. And as i stated, negativity is infectious, violence whether emotional or physical has a way of perpetuating itself.
(now i am putting this in parentheses to explain this because i don't want to overly saturate this late night brain fart post, but i think the way violence perpetuates itself is that victims who are traumatized have a tendency to reduce the stress of that trauma through exposure to similar stimuli because that exposure reduces the strength of that stimulus(see later mere exposure), also they feel empowered rahter than being a helpless victim....empathy can incite anger because it's effect on consciousness is so strong that your mind rages at it defensively because it's too overstimulating [which is kind of funny because we view walling of your emotions as strong])
Forgive me for right now i am sleepy, and my grammar might be off. Sometimes i "subconsciously" utilize the internet as means of stress transfer. I utilize anger as a vessel for my stress, but it is not a long-term solution to the causal factors of that stress. Since is it short term, it means that stress can be replenished and in order to combat it i utilize the same tactic repeatedly. This could potentially cause a problem where i become "addictive" or "dependent" on anger to alleviate stress. Keep in mind this process has the potential to exponentiate because of the "mere exposure" effect. The mere exposure effect is an advertising term i learned where when you experience something once, the second time experiencing it is drastically reduced due to experience or the "mere exposure effect". So if i am merely exposed to my own anger, overtime i would require more of it to alleviate stress, so the general direction of my life could gravitate to that state in a perpetual spiral.
Now, if i victimize other people with my own anger, they will in tune perpetuate that anger and i will create an angrier world without much happiness. It has a way of snowballing out of control. So i guess, i should find better ways to reduce stress and in general focus on long-term solutions.
Sorry if i used TYM as a thought billboard... I don't know if i am normal
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