Hello 4-ch users,
today I've been thinking about hate and polarization, specifically on the internet. How come people are so hateful and polarized?
I think it may be because they try to make for themselves an identity out of this hate. They think that since they are showing how strong their opinion (or emotion) on something is, they create an identity and show it to the world.
I'm not talking about people showing their (true?)emotions on something on the internet(of which usefulness is dubious to me), but specifically about they popolarity of hating something just because it's cool. So I guess it also has something to do about being part of a group(a shit group, but still a group nontheless).
I also think that this cause a lot of the polarization we see on the net(it probably applies IRL too).
Ignoring the fact that polarizing people is proficuous for some people, I feel that a lot don't understand that they are simply throwing around ideas that aren't theirs(cause they got influenced by someone on the internet they trust for some reason, although one of the most important rules on the internet is to not trust everything you see on it. Or they read some bullshit that makes sense when you're ignorant in some subjects and didn't bothered to check it out, ending up believing in crap).
The same kinda applies IRL I believe, but on the internet the whole thing is amplified.
What do you think?
furries did nothing wrong
I will muse on this and share my opinion one day
hate is heart of teh interbutts
The people doing that are making a conscious choice to bring negativity into the world, and so they are beneath me.
america is going through a mental health crisis. and every dumb kid has a phone these days.
It's the Mob Mentality.
CIROFAG
A big factor is that you're not talking to a living being. It's an inhuman block of text. Messes with your perception. From there it bleeds out and manifests IRL since more and more of people's time is spent online.
For a serious answer, I think people are increasingly giving up on the notion of convincing anyone to their side. Partly that's down to 99% of people being shit at any level of debate above "you're an idiot" but even scientific research says that trying to get people to change their mind is more likely to just make them dig their heels in instead. Once you've written someone off as a permanent adversary rather than someone who could be won over, it's easy to start hating them.
Hate bandwagons and web crowds with torches are also more diffuse now.
Anonymity + Freedom -> Hate?
>>12
Nah, shitloads of people are willing to hate without anonymity. Look at Facebook sometime.
If anything, anonymity going out of fashion has made it easier to be more than just an internet edgelord. Now that your best internet bud goes by his real name and photo on FB, and not by "HeilHitler88" with a swastika avatar, you don't have to wonder if he's just ironically posting white power memes (or if he's an FBI spook, which he might still be, but remember, you're probably a dumbass if you get radicalized) and can fearlessly ask him "hey wanna overthrow the (((government)))?"
just look at some sns and you will se that anonymity don't have nothing to do with hate speech.
Unironically this is the fault of Americans (Gamergate and the 2016 election).
Giant internet, very large expansion internet cycles. Thank you.