I’m a real person! I have real feelings.

I must agree as well that more than half of the harsh things people say on the net would not be said face-to-face. There is a sense of security about sitting behind a screen and being mean in your own house, so that's why they do it. I try to be nice on and offline but it doesn't always work out that way. Although i have been a little nicer since i started taking medication!

Sad but true that people get on the internet and are rude, cruel and don't care who they hurt. Take care of yourself...and be careful as there are some very strange people on the internet.

I know exactly what you are saying. I posted a discussion and got a response that didn't necessarily hurt my feelings but made me go "what did I do to this guy? he doesn't even truly know me!" A lot of cyberspace is based on false premise, but I'd like to think that 99% of us on MyLot are being real. I don't think in my case this yahoo would've said anything to my face, but if he really knew me he'd know where I was coming from.

This is a one dimensional form of communication and it's really difficult to read people in this medium. I have a job whereby I rarely see my boss and she chooses to e-mail me instead of calling me to communicate. Many times I can't read the tone of her e-mail and I don't know if she joking around with me or just really annoyed. It's the same thing here and often I will look for the good intent before forming a judgment.

I understand how you feel. When I was younger I was one of the people who acts mean to some.. but of course to those strangers who acts up... but then a few years after I realized all those being nasty was not good and its actually pointless and stupid so I mellowed down. This is the internet... there are few others who are sincere and some are not... and its also depends on how you relate to them. But of course to those who hurt you... dont mind them too much... just be nice to everybody... and avoid whatever arguments there is here..

I personally think so a major factor plays a role in whether people came on to the net later in life or earlier on. I came on the net for the first time when I was about 9 and it was pretty much simply being set up still, everything was pretty crappy and you didn't really have communities like you have now. Over the past 11 years people have become more harsh on the net but to me it doesn't matter, I don't get touched at all by what someone says on the net. But if you come from a life without the net and you came on just a couple of years ago when it was already a big thing it must be quite a shock to suddenly find yourself being treated that directly, having people actually saying those things they would usually only think about you.

i believe that online people are "people", too. we all have feelings... behind those avatars, behind those discussions, behind those profiles, those responses, those comments... are real people who can feel happiness and get hurt as well. it's online where i met my boyfriend. it's online when i met old friends back then. it's online when i met new friends.. and it's online when i met new friends here in myLot. i even have friends here in myLot to whom i send letters and little packages through the regular post. and the friendship is really great. if we look deeper through the avatars and we feel the person, we know that there is a real human being there. however, it is in this online world when we meet the most annoying, most rude people ever. people who can judge you in an instance. i met a lot of them here in myLot. but they never put me down. i have friends who support me. and these rude people are just nuisance trying to pull me down... but they can't.. and i won't let them. i hope people will try to respect people offline or online... be true online or offline and be trustworthy offline or online... happy myLotting!

Internet is the best source and medium to get the information of anything. It depends how the person is using it. otherwise it is good and beneficial for all the age group. Even if you teach your child you teach it from the internet. You can give the basic training from the internet . You can explore so many thing from their.

People are people on or off line. Some could be trusted with everything you own, others not as far as you could throw them. Caution should be used with all the people you meet. My husband and I used to laugh when we lived in RV parks--------the people you meet there can tell you anything and you wouldn't know if it was true or not. I have very good friends I met on line, and then had contact with in the physical world. We were friends before we ever met. My brother met his wife on line, and is very happy. On the other hand, I know of a woman who met a man on line, fell in love with him, married him and he stole all her property and left her flat.

Yea it can be fun but heck even in pogo game rooms people start getting nasty with others.There's always someone who wants to stir things up.I rarely chat in these but just laugh at em and move on.Artists smessage boards get b*tchy and I don't think I've been anywhere on the net where you don't have this.Too many people just can't get along, just remember they don't even know you so don't let it bother you.

I find what you said to be very true. Who you are in the real world is who you will be on the world wide web as well. Except maybe more so! Behind the big screen one tends to feel invincable! I find it scary and appauling what people will do to each other on the net. But it is nice to know that the good far out ways the bad. Your a wise girl there Swtrose!

Swtrose, While I admit what you said is true of some people in theworld.....but no all people are that way....when I write a response to somebody's discussion I put alot of "me" into....otherwise I usually do not respond at all. I do believe that it is easier for some to be rude...but these same people would not be much different inperson if you were around them for very long....true colors always show! I have read some responses that made me feel horible for the person who is asking for advice or simply stating their viewpoint on a specific subject; or the response is clearly one in search a penny.....no thought, or way off the subject! Good topic, my friend.

Yes, online and offline people can be so rude. I think its easier for people to be nasty on the internet because they don't have to say things face to face. It's too bad that people don't realize it and start acting more respectful towards others. I try to be nice on AND offline because that's how I want to be treated as well.

Online you can be mean and avoid the consequences easily and maybe thats unfair. But so long as the comments are justified in the first place i think its fine. In society people bite their tongue a lot so to not offend people even when there are valid comments to be made. Since everything is anonymous on the internet we don't have bite our tongues.. so it while it seems harsh it can still be true. The internet is a faceless form of reality but it still exists.

It is an unfortunate fact of life that people will say horrible things from the safety and anonimity of the keyboard and screen. I have had to learn that it is often better to try to ignore the nasty ones and enjoy communicating with the good ones

Like any things, The internet can be a wonderfull mediun, But also if we used wrongly and hurt the other either in direct way or indirect, it transfere to a weapon which can kill the human people. The problem is, The wrong use of the things for example, the nuclear energy, can be used in pease or in the war depinding on the insides of whome are used either if its good or bad

hi friend Its not only internet , take any thing there will be both good and bad about!! it all depends on how to take it positively

yeah,when u face the computer,time passes so quickly that u don't have consciousness of it,not only time ,but also your colorful feelings.

in my case, i wont hurt people online,coz i know clearly that we dont really know each other.we are just sharing our experience here,no need to make others feel bad.the real world cannot make us happy so that we can find remedy here.but opposite case is some people get their real anger out online to hurt others.that is a shame,but we can do nothing to stop others,so just take care of ourselves,dont be so absorbed to what is the unfair judgement online towards us.we have the right to choose our own way online to communicate and the comfortable way to express us online, no hurt just communication.

I'm sorry, it sounds like you've experienced something quite unpleasant. Yes you do need to be careful who you speak to on the net. I would say that probably the MAJORITY of people on the net ARE NOT who or what they say they are. Quite frankly, in my opinion, ANYONE that has to pretend to be someone or something they're not is in need of immediate psychiatric care. It sounds like you've met some, not so nice people online, just steer away from them, block them. Anyone that has to hide behind a computer to hurt someones feelings and say something they would not say to your face, IS NOT worth getting to know anyhow.