Social Media has given opened us to so many wonderful opportunities. It allows us to open up to put our opinions out there and have other individuals view it. Not everybody is going to like what we have to say and what we do online but since you can have an opinion well so can they. There happen to be certain individuals that love to start up problems with what you have to say and although they are allowed to express what they want there should be a certain limit on how far things should be taken. It's so easy to say things when you're only facing a screen but many don't realize how much it can affect someone's feelings. It can lead to them lowering their self esteem and making them feel less of a person when we are all the same.
If someone agrees with what you're saying it can give you a really good feeling inside but it's definitely not the same impact when someone bashes what you have to say. Individuals tend to have such stronger feeling towards things they disagree on which is something a lot of us will never understand exactly why. I have seen many of these trolling incidents on most teens favorite app, Twitter. I have seen many people, especially girls, put each other down for no good apparent reason and I don't think I'll ever understand how they get joy out of that. By putting someone behind the screen takes away the moment of feeling guilty or bad for what they're doing because you don't get an immediate reaction off of the other person. If the troll were to ever be confronted there typical response would be "learn how to take a joke", "I was kidding", "well you deserve it" but there is a huge difference between joking around and trolling around.
I love your title and the distinction you make between joking around and trolling around. I see this problem even off screen, as the general culture of our age group is to make fun of each other. We call each other names, insult each other, or point out our flaws. Usually, this is done in just a playful and friendly manner; however, I think our words often hurt deeper than we realize. Maybe our actions on screen are reflections of our off screen actions as well. The anonymity of the Internet just magnifies off screen problems we already have and we say even worse things than what we would say in person. Overall, I liked your blog post!
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