I was talking to someone recently about the recent "outbreak" of trollism here that led them to give me a link to something I didn't realize existed ...
The site is an "anonymous" BB where the sole purpose seems to be trashing people, often in the most foul-mouthed language available. Opened my senior-citizen age eyes ... and I worked a number of years as a police dispatcher and even more years in a psych hospital, so I'm not very easily taken aback.
The pattern seems to be surfing the internet for websites or classified ads and then attacking the owners/animals as being overpriced, useless, backyard breeders ... anything and everything they can think of ... with anonymous posts. Anyone can post, using any name or nickname, no registration so no ISP tracking and say anything they want to.
Reminded me of a feeding frenzy in shark waters!
Either that ... or for some reason I have this vision of a clique of grade school kids out in the school yard yelling insults at the kid they're picking on ...
I cannot imagine what pleasure anyone would get out of this kind of thing ... it isn't apparantly even people they know!
I guess you live long enough and you see everything! And the other thing is apparantly these aren't kids ... they're so-called adults!
Am I just being naive? Did everyone but me know BBs like these were around?
The site is an "anonymous" BB where the sole purpose seems to be trashing people, often in the most foul-mouthed language available. Opened my senior-citizen age eyes ... and I worked a number of years as a police dispatcher and even more years in a psych hospital, so I'm not very easily taken aback.
The pattern seems to be surfing the internet for websites or classified ads and then attacking the owners/animals as being overpriced, useless, backyard breeders ... anything and everything they can think of ... with anonymous posts. Anyone can post, using any name or nickname, no registration so no ISP tracking and say anything they want to.
Reminded me of a feeding frenzy in shark waters!
Either that ... or for some reason I have this vision of a clique of grade school kids out in the school yard yelling insults at the kid they're picking on ...
I cannot imagine what pleasure anyone would get out of this kind of thing ... it isn't apparantly even people they know!
I guess you live long enough and you see everything! And the other thing is apparantly these aren't kids ... they're so-called adults!
Am I just being naive? Did everyone but me know BBs like these were around?