SYNAPSE CIRCUIT ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING 2014 PART TWO

SYNAPSE CIRCUIT

ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING 2014 PART TWO

#AntisocialNetworking #Trolling #CyberBullying #Hate

Good late evening / early morning, Synapse Circuit Readers! First of all, thank you so much for reading my articles! The ‘Antisocial Networking’ article update has gone down very, very well! Thanks again!

I just thought I ought to update you with this little snippet...

PROOF THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO JUST DON’T WANT TO SEE OTHERS PROSPER – NO MATTER WHAT!
Again, if you have been following my articles on the subject of ‘Antisocial Networking’ you will know that at the heart of many “spam” accusations the fear that YOU – or in this case ME – can be making money. God forbid that you, I or anyone else can earn a few pennies from doing what we love! And why shouldn’t we?

It is such a sad thing to see. Why would anyone waste any portion of their time to ensure that others do not get to earn from a facility such as Google Ads? Ok, I will tell you...

Such people who hate to see you earn revenue from whatever it is (in the name of positivity) that you’re doing online are those that think they have no talent to do anything for themselves. It goes back to what I was saying about such folk with low self-esteem and / or self-loathing issues; they aren’t happy so they do their upmost to ensure that you’re not happy.

MY EXAMPLE
I posted a notification in a Google community called CyanogenMod with a link to one of my articles that intended to help those having issues with a specific Android handset, HTC One X. In a nutshell, I wanted to ensure that people with the HTC One X didn’t go through what I went through when I removed the HTC software on it by default.







I think it is a nice thing to be able to help people. But one person didn’t think so. There’s always one which can lead to two, three, etc. Before you know it you’re embroiled in a pointless argument that serves only to deride. Again, why shouldn’t I be able to earn while I help people?

THE IDEAL
If that small minded person thought about his pettiness he’d see that he’s not helping anybody – especially the company that is helping millions of people to enjoy their Android handsets. With my would-be-earnings I would be able to make a donation and / or purchase a CyanogenMod handset that will help to keep the company going. But this unfortunate man or child is just concerned with me becoming rich when it shouldn’t concern him! It’s the small minded that keep threatening to destroy real online communities and businesses!

Be supportive of people doing good things because one day that could be you! Like me you could be earning a steady income stream that’ll keep you doing something you love! I am there for you!

FURTHER READING
LINKS TO ARTICLES

Woman becomes first person to be jailed for ‘trolling herself’
http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/05/woman-becomes-first-person-to-be-jailed-for-trolling-herself-4292090/

Internet Trolls Really Are Horrible People Narcissistic, Machiavellian, psychopathic, and sadistic. By Chris Mooney
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2014/02/internet_troll_personality_study_machiavellianism_narcissism_psychopathy.html

Fifth Neknominate death after man downed two pints of GIN to 'show who's the boss'.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fifth-neknominate-death-after-man-3150586

ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING

AMANDA TODD
http://synapse-circuit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/antisocial-networking-amanda-todd-could.html

PAY UP!
http://synapse-circuit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/more-antisocial-networking-pay-up.html

ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING: R.I.P. REHTAEH PARSONS
http://synapse-circuit.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/antisocial-networking-rip-rehtaeh.html

ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING? PART ONE
http://synapse-circuit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/antisocial-networking-part-one.html

ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING? PART TWO FORUM FASCISM
http://synapse-circuit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/antisocial-networking-part-two-forum.html

ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING? PART THREE FORUM FASCISM
http://synapse-circuit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/antisocialnetworking-part-three-forum.html

What do you reckon?

Take good care!

Thank you for watching and reading!

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SYNAPSE CIRCUIT ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING 2014

SYNAPSE CIRCUIT
ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING 2014
#AntisocialNetworking #Trolling #CyberBullying #Hate

Good late evening, Synapse Circuit Readers! How are you? I hope that you had a wonderful relaxing weekend! I sure did – even though I found some time to write a couple of articles last night! Well, I love to write as you probably have figured out! Lol!

A few days ago an online article, ‘Internet Trolls Really Are Horrible People Narcissistic, Machiavellian, psychopathic, and sadistic.’ It reminded me of the articles I wrote on ‘Antisocial Networking’ a while back. I am not sure if I agree with all of the articles contents...

“INTERNET TROLLS REALLY ARE HORRIBLE PEOPLE NARCISSISTIC, MACHIAVELLIAN, PSYCHOPATHIC, AND SADISTIC.” REALLY?
The trouble with the above notion is that the Internet – under the right circumstances can bring out the negative in some of us. It’s just like observing a kind, caring mother turn into a raging psychopathic killer when her child or children has been bullied, etc.

From my experiences I am inclined to think that some people really do believe in what they are doing by ostracizing someone online in, let’s say a forum. Again, it should come as no surprise that it is often the people that claim to be of a high moral standing i.e. a member of a particular religion, etc are often the most extreme because their sense of morality justifies it. Usually, such “moral leaders” have a following and that following are people who want to belong and will 90% of the time go along with what the “moral leader or leaders” have put forward against another.

Followers that question the “moral leader or leaders” are also ostracized.

I have been a member of a few forums and my stance has always been anti-clique! I can’t stand forum members that take the viewpoint that they own the forum space because they have been there the longest. And it’s the same with a lot of forum “moderators” who are supposedly there to keep the forum(s) pleasant and enjoyable for all but they just pander to their friends who they have formed bonds with from day one! This is what destroys any potentially good forum. The forum police become corrupt as does its mayor (the most respected forum member) and followers thus making any member that comes afterwards the outsider or outsiders. Sometimes it is hard to break through a clique of closed minded people.

At one point in a particular forum belonging to a rather well known software house I was being trolled by a rather disturbed person who was accusing me of being a troll just for having a wide presence on the Internet. If you have a website and social networking accounts then you will leave a considerable trail behind. However, this disturbed person did not seem to understand that he was in fact trolling me and questioning me about my various innocuous online activities to do with having a website and social networking accounts. This guy was really bonkers but he couldn’t see it because as far as he was concerned I was the “enemy”. Naturally, this guy wasn’t alone! Uh-uh! He had a rather accomplice in a “moderator” who is of Christian faith and quick to make accusations of “spam” for no particular reason other than for spite.

SELF-HATE
I’ve come to realize that people who are participating in trolling, cyber-bullying, etc are people who have a self-loathing and the Internet is used as some strange therapy. These people feel the need to be nasty towards others; it’s like they can’t help themselves. I reckon this is why some of these people do this anonymously. Offline they are the kind of people you wouldn’t notice and online they are the vilest people you could ever come across. Because of their insecurities they feel as though they need to make others feel worse!

Look at the young girls who were driven to suicide... I can’t think of one of those belated young girls that looked – for want of a better expression – ugly! All the young girls / women looked very beautiful and if school was like anything that I experienced when I was a pupil then it was the girl who looked like a model was the one who got picked on. Sometimes vanity can kill! I mean, if you think you’re beautiful and get told that you’re not it could make you want to take your life. But if you know that you are a beautiful person inside and out then it is harder to succumb to such bullying – that’s my theory!

In fact the one forum moderator described herself as a “yodel uneducated hick...” and that supports my theory that many people that have a self-loathing can be the nastiest people online. She’s probably still the same way. I was trying to have a discussion with her about the arts. I had an online magazine about music and she objected to an artist’s view on God. She confused that artist’s opinion of God with whom I am as a person. When I tried to reason with her about artist expression she came out with that description of herself, “yodel uneducated hick...” But that’s nothing to do with me but her uninformed outbursts within the forum and a negative effect on me. There you go!

As a web designer I have advised clients to NOT have a forum on their site if they cannot police it properly. A forum can bring the wrong kind of attention to what you are doing! In fact the well known software company has taken a more “community” approach to their forums. I have yet to join it. I might join it to see what happens! Lol!

LATELY
Sadly, there have been suicides. It seems like there isn’t enough education available to those who are affected as both bully and victim. Some “celebrities” have tried to capitalize on the subject of bullying to improve their status but it appears that not much has been achieved if school children are still taking their lives after suffering horrendous bullying both on and offline. I think I’ve yet to see a program that focuses on the bullies; ‘From the mouths of bullies. Why do they do what they do?’ That would be one interesting program.

Again, education or lack of it seems to be a major problem. For example, take this “NekNomination” craze, that I believe comes from the UK, it has claimed 3 lives (if I am correct) and the deaths came about through alcohol poisoning where the nominees must accept the challenge of drinking very dangerous amounts of alcohol. One deceased person is said to have consumed 2 pints of gin! Can you believe it????

Shouldn’t it be common knowledge that if you drink spirits in large quantities that it can cause alcohol poisoning that could kill? There again, how many teenagers have heard of the dangers of mixing wine, beer and spirits? As a teenager I found myself celebrating someone’s birthday in the cosy setting of the home; nothing outlandish like a nightclub, pub or anything like that. I was at someone’s home who was celebrating his birthday. Innocently, I consumed a potentially deadly stream of different alcohols: wine, beer and spirit. The quantities were not what I would consider as dangerous but the accumulation of these different forms of alcohol almost killed me! Now just imagine if I were in a different setting where there was a competitive atmosphere; I think I would not be here now. Since then I have read many ‘o’ times of accidental deaths occurring at stag nights. Come to think of it, I can’t remember any females dying of alcohol poisoning at a hen night.

TRENDS
The way I see it, there will always be people who have a low opinion of themselves and / or may not be well educated. This is the fuel for the on and offline hate campaigns that can drive others to suicide and getting into mischief that can possibly result in death by misadventure.

FURTHER READING
LINKS TO ARTICLES

Woman becomes first person to be jailed for ‘trolling herself’
http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/05/woman-becomes-first-person-to-be-jailed-for-trolling-herself-4292090/

Internet Trolls Really Are Horrible People Narcissistic, Machiavellian, psychopathic, and sadistic. By Chris Mooney
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2014/02/internet_troll_personality_study_machiavellianism_narcissism_psychopathy.html

Fifth Neknominate death after man downed two pints of GIN to 'show who's the boss'.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fifth-neknominate-death-after-man-3150586

ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING

AMANDA TODD
http://synapse-circuit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/antisocial-networking-amanda-todd-could.html

PAY UP!
http://synapse-circuit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/more-antisocial-networking-pay-up.html

ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING: R.I.P. REHTAEH PARSONS
http://synapse-circuit.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/antisocial-networking-rip-rehtaeh.html

ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING? PART ONE
http://synapse-circuit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/antisocial-networking-part-one.html

ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING? PART TWO FORUM FASCISM
http://synapse-circuit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/antisocial-networking-part-two-forum.html

ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING? PART THREE FORUM FASCISM
http://synapse-circuit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/antisocialnetworking-part-three-forum.html

What do you reckon?

Take good care!

Thank you for watching and reading!

Please check out the Synapse Circuit website for video, i-PDF and more! 

Synapse Circuit Dot Com