Trolling and Selfies--Blog Entry #8

    Have you  ever been trolled before? I did.  I have seem a lot of troller on the internet and in my real life.  Moreover, I just got trolled recently in the campus.  By definition, trolling on the internet is to post immature comments with stereotypes content.  These comments often have thoughtless conclusions and the only mean they posting them is to bring unpleasant emotion to other people.  Now, the definition of trolling has expanded. Any behaviors that is associated with intentionally hurting people‘s feeling.  Let's pause for a moment, do all these look familiar to you? If so, you have probably seem a troller in your real life.  The difference between trolling on the internet and trolling in the real life is that real life trollers troll not only with words but also with unwanted physical contact which offends or hurts other people.  Just recently I was victimized to this kind of trolling.  The person did disrespectful physical contact to me just because he didn't receive the attention he wanted.

  Now we have a pretty good understanding of what trolling is.  You might wondering why would anyone does it.  If you take a close like to those trollers's behaviors,  some of them do act like Sadism, Psychopathy, and Machiavellianism.   Yet, what's more is that trollers crave for other people's attention.  One of the main reasons they troll is that they could not get enough attention from other people. Also, they seem don't have the social skill to get people's attention in a right way.   So they post those insulting comment or do disrespect physical contact which just drives people mad.   One by one, people will start to criticize them of what they have done.  But these critical will only bring satisfaction to them instead letting them realize their mistake.  And internet anonymous and wold wide net just help those real life trollers, who depress themselves because of social pressure, "release" themselves.

   Selfies is very popular way of express ourselves nowadays.   I don't have any friends who love to post their selfies every day.  Yet, I know many people on the internet do that.  However, I don't think it a "crime" to do so.  It's just annoying.  I guess not one want to go out with a friend who takes picture of themselves every 10 minutes.  And one thing I have learn from looking on selfies is that don't ever trust picture of someone because they were all edited.  I don't think taking selfies is associated will any mental problem.  After all we all have some narcissism inside of us.