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How does online trolling affect people?
Trolling can cause significant harm and distress. It is associated with serious physical and psychological effects, including disrupted sleep, lowered self-esteem, depression, self-harm, suicidal ideation, and in some cases, even suicide. Alarmingly, it is extremely common to experience trolling.
What are the benefits of trolling?
The Benefits of Having a Troll
- Increased gentleness to other people. Feeling the discomfort that my troll has caused has made me more sensitive to other people’s feelings.
- The value of accepting the immutable.
- The takeaway.
Is Trolling good or bad?
A troll can disrupt the discussion on a newsgroup or online forum, disseminate bad advice, and damage the feeling of trust in the online community. Furthermore, in a group that has become sensitized to trolling – where the rate of deception is high – many honestly naïve questions may be quickly rejected as trolling.
Why do trolls troll online?
Even when you, or others online, call out trolls for being wrong or not stating the facts, they will keep on trolling. In fact, the more you or others argue or engage with them, the more fun they have. They do not care about being right. They want to create chaos and disrupt conversations. Disobey online rules .
Does online trolling have any effect on young people?
In fact online trolling has serious effects on young people, and here’s the thing – recent research reports that 1 in 3 young people aged 14-18 received offensive online comments – and 1 in 10 have carried it (trolling) out.
What is the difference between Internet trolls and cyberbullying?
Their goal is to attract attention and disrupt conversations. The more attention they get, the happier they are. Internet trolls find it enjoyable and entertaining to attack other people, create distractions, make people upset, or hijack conversations. Meanwhile, cyberbullying is much more personal.
Is trolling a form of online harassment?
Often, trolling is considered an annoying but ultimately inconsequential part of internet culture. But misunderstanding “trolling”—and other words like “cyberbullying” and “online harassment”—can quickly undermine the seriousness of the behavior it describes.