A Change in Opinion

 When asked what I thought of trolls in the beginning I would have said well there's not much to it. You have the bad ones and then you have your good ones, they both differ in the ways in which they impact society, on one end you have a light-hearted prankster and on the other you have a cold-hearted cruel deviant. After reading several articles on the negative effects of anonymity I noticed I started leaning more towards anti-anonymity I began to question why we have it in the first place due to all the cons I was seeing through my readings. It seemed that the con arguments were persuading me to their side little by little. It wasn't until recently that now I could finally be able to read the pros I've wanted to see, I craved to see the pros list to truly understand the depths to which trolling differs in degrees. In my opinion it seems that the pros outweigh the cons, thanks to anonymity we can all openly discuss topics openly without fear of being judged or be too shy to ask embarrassing questions we all deeply want to know. Which I think is amazing in itself because I know that I've been in that situation several times where I couldn't say what I wanted to say out of fear of being judged and thought of as redundant. I've seen it happen all the time too, where students refuse to raise their hand in class when they don't understand a concept all due to the fact that they don't want to be ridiculed.