The ability of the Internet to bring out the judgemental, meannes, and self righteousnes in people.

It amazes me how bold people can be, and insensitive to others, because they are on the Internet, and are not looking who ever they are bashing in the face. It's particularly bothersome in children and teenagers. Do they not care that they are hurting someones feelings, or trampling all over their self esteem? Even others who do not know why a person on a particular site is being bashed, will follow along with others.

The mob mentality on the Internet?Wow, we humans have really lost our morals, I don't know how some people sleep at night knowing what they have done to someone on the Internet. Because they are mad at someone, they post nude, or questionable pics of said someone all over the internet, to get back at them? Or go to their MySpace page, and post the pics, and send out bash bullitons? Do they realize they could be ruining that persons entire life by doing such things? Do they know people have had to take their kids out of a particular school, and move to a different city or state, because of bashing and posting questionable pictures on the internet or MySpace about their kids? Do they not realize that they are causing people to give up their carrers, long standing jobs that were well paying, sell their dream home, lose their jobs, and many other repercussions because they were so shortsighted, that they could not see the damage that can be done by internet bashing?

People like that, are cowards! And obviously don't have a lick of common sense, which would consist of looking at the big picture, and looking at the repercussions, consequences, etc..., before deciding to do something stupid.

I belong to a couple of websites that have different groups for different types of people. It blows my mind how people can be so judgemental and call people names, tell them how stupid they are, tell them they don't deserve to be a parent. All based on a simple comment, or parenting method, or whatever it is, that the others disagree with. Instead of agreeing to disagree, they go to these peoples home pages, and bash them with negative posts, or bash them in the current thread that is being discussed. We all know these people would not be so mean to your face. So why the internet? Because they have annonymity, and think you can get away with it, and obviously don't realize that they are still hurting the person, even though they are not looking them in the face and saying it.

So annonymity brings out the boldness that does not always come out in the real world? Does it make a person feel better that when they are upset about something, they can totally take it out on someone else and make them feel bad, so they can make them selves feel better? Apparently so, as I see it more and more. I see information being copied and pasted (with out the "source" information included) in order to try and prove a point, and the information can be totally incorrect, but people will take it as the truth, because it goes along with their belief system. Ignorance is bliss. Common sense does not exist in the minds of these people.

Are parents and schools not teaching their kids the Golden Rule? "Do unto others, as you would have others do unto you" or in the words of Bambi "If you can't say something nice, then don't say nothin' at all". Or is it being over shadowed by the media. Like when you get snipey people like Nancy Grace, who always has this holier than thou tone of voice when she speaks. The media is all in to the Brittney Spears to do, and anything that is negative, and can be sensationalized. What ever happened to telling the truth, and the media being responsible for their reporting? It used to be, that the news media was not allowed to report unverified information. Now they just blabber away, because they want to get the story out before their competitors, and then if they are wrong. It's ooops, sorry, later on, or they say nothing at all. Pretty irresponsible if you ask me.

Email chain letters really burn my ass. I get 4 or 5 a day on some of the websites that I belong to. They drive me crazy, especially if it is about an illness, or a kidnapping, and I go to Snopes.com, and find out it is just another Urban Legand unleashed again. And people in the meantime are spreading it all over the internet as though it were true, and getting people all worked up over a lie. Now I am starting to get the old ones, recycled into new ones. What is wrong with these people? Is that all they have to do all day is sit at there computers and make this shit up? Where is the common sense in that people???? I love the ones that tell a nice story, and you really enjoy the story, only to be guilt tripped in the end, by the old "If you don't pass this on to at least 10 friends your house will burn down in 10 days" or "If you don't pass this on, you don't love Jesus", or even better, "You aren't a TRUE friend." Give me a Break! You can't just pass along a cute or nice story or poem, without attatching something stupid to it, to make sure people pass it on, because God forbid, they may not have enough common sense to realize that nothing is going to happen? It's absolutely mind boggling! If I like the story, I'll pass it along, but not before I delete the guilt trip part.