Originally Posted by AOTB:
“And this is something that has intrigued me for a while about DS. It doesn't annoy me, more interests me.
I never ever see this happen all that much in the real world but on here I see it all the time. It's an odd one, that's for sure.”
God, I see a load of stuff on here that I don't see much in real life. Ive wondered if it's the anonymity that let's people express unpleasant stuff they can only usually say to nearest and dearest, or if I've been lucky/sheltered in my real life to be close to mostly liberal, compassionate, thoughtful people who question their own bad thoughts.
Maybe I have met more people like this than I realise, but the nature of actual social conversation versus writing posts means you gauge your audience and self-censor in a way that you don't online? So people pull back in real life where they don't on here and we don't get to know the real them?
