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I see a lot of people on SA and other forums/chats having ongoing meltdowns over things they see on the internet. As some one who's been able to laugh at things like death threats and mean words on the internet I just don't understand the mind set of some one who gets emotional over words on the internet. Can some one explain it to me?
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Aspergers
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Feb 5, 2017 17:54
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Ride The Gravitron posted:I see a lot of people on SA and other forums/chats having ongoing meltdowns over things they see on the internet. As some one who's been able to laugh at things like death threats and mean words on the internet I just don't understand the mind set of some one who gets emotional over words on the internet. Can some one explain it to me?
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Feb 5, 2017 21:10
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That's kind of what I mean. Some one links that in what I can only assume is some kind of "burn" attempt and I'm like meh but then some other people start getting furious and melting down. What goes through their mind when they do that?
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Feb 5, 2017 21:12
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You'd be upset to if you had to read your lovely posts
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Feb 5, 2017 21:29
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op read QCS to see emotionally invested internet people
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Feb 6, 2017 04:58
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Ride The Gravitron posted:That's kind of what I mean. Some one links that in what I can only assume is some kind of "burn" attempt and I'm like meh but then some other people start getting furious and melting down. What goes through their mind when they do that? I'm not sure, but is this something you're curious about just on the Internet, or outside of this do you also feel like you can be more emotionally removed than other people you see? Also it's pretty neat to be able to brush off a credible death threats if you're going to be a civil rights activist, but less commendable if you're just planning on being a gangster or a pharmaceutical CEO or something like that. My two cents about why emotional investment, even over-investment, happens on the internet comes from at least two factor: 1) Despite the layers and distances of the Internet, we're still interacting with actual people, so attachments will happen, and folks will care about how they appear to others. 2) The distance and layers may actually provide a perceived safer place to "meltdown".
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Feb 6, 2017 06:12
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Ride The Gravitron posted:I see a lot of people on SA and other forums/chats having ongoing meltdowns over things they see on the internet. As some one who's been able to laugh at things like death threats and mean words on the internet I just don't understand the mind set of some one who gets emotional over words on the internet. Can some one explain it to me? You spent 10 bux on a Doug avatar.
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Feb 6, 2017 17:03
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Having signed up for SA in the context of it being a comedy forum, it can seem ridiculous when people discuss politics seriously here and get upset about that, but SA has been around since, I think 1999, and the site is different things to different people. There has been a couple of Ask/Tell threads about why people signed up for the forums, and what they like about them, and although it seems strange in the context of an on-line comedy forum, a lot of people have enjoyed more serious resources and support-networks that has developed on SA over the years. One of the things that people mention in previous topics about how they've used and enjoyed SA as a resource, is that a lot of people have managed to lose a whole lot of weight and live healthier with help from the fitness and cooking forums, as an example. That is a genuinely worthwhile and meaningful use of the forums, I think. My point being, that simply because something takes place on-line, it doesn't mean that it can be something that is a genuinely meaningful resource. Developing an emotional attachment isn't just limited to the participation of more serious stuff like that, though. I'm not really into on-line gaming myself, but I don't think it is hard to imagine why people who have played video games with each others, with voice-communication, for literally years, develops an emotional connection to the people they interact with, and as an extension of that, the on-line community. There also isn't necessarily a very clear divide between on-line and off-line stuff, as there can easily be cross-over. There is definitely such a thing as over-reacting and being too emotionally invested in online bs, but the idea that any kind of emotional investment is an over-reaction is weird, too, imo.
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Feb 7, 2017 16:08
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Ride The Gravitron posted:#26 Ride The Gravitron posted:#26.1
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Feb 10, 2017 06:29
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Caufman posted:
This is actually an interesting concept. I know a lot of people tend to see the anonymity of the internet as permission to act like they wouldn't in real life. I mean that's why we see trolls being trolls. I never thought to compare that to meltdowns since I feel that the assholness is a deliberate action while the meltdown is uncontrolled. Are meltdowns actually deliberate then?
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Feb 10, 2017 09:49
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I get upset about stuff online because I get upset easily about things that happen in the real world. I'm insecure and probably a little narcissistic, so anything that might look negative gets to me easily. I don't have meltdowns though, I just slink off. Anyway, that's my being a little bitch story.
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Ride The Gravitron posted:This is actually an interesting concept. I know a lot of people tend to see the anonymity of the internet as permission to act like they wouldn't in real life. I mean that's why we see trolls being trolls. I never thought to compare that to meltdowns since I feel that the assholness is a deliberate action while the meltdown is uncontrolled. Are meltdowns actually deliberate then? I myself would not go that far, mostly because to say something was done deliberately is to suggest motive, and 'meltdowns' are probably so idiosyncratic between the contexts and participants that it would be wrong to generalize on motives. I was thinking more along the context of a flight-or-fight-(plus posture-or-submit) response, which I would not say is completely controlled. But you're onto something even more important, which is that once a person has an awareness that they have real choices in reacting, they can no longer go back to believing they do not. Grevling posted:I get upset about stuff online because I get upset easily about things that happen in the real world. I'm insecure and probably a little narcissistic, so anything that might look negative gets to me easily. I don't have meltdowns though, I just slink off. Anyway, that's my being a little bitch story. Good share, fellow little bitch. It's takes self-awareness to recognize even that much in yourself.
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They're mentally ill
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