What is an internet troll?

Yes that is a Troll and I do remember the incident if I am on about the right Site, I also remember the Blog I was very angry about it all as People have no right to do this and specially not when they don't know you Even if they know you they should talk to you and not the whole world But Life is not like that, is it Sweetie, and it makes me so angry

That stinks when people do that. They don`t even know you. I think they just like to make people miserable. They get some sort of sick joy from hurting others. I`d even bet they do it in their real life too. I try to ignore people like that. After all they don`t know me and I don`t know them. I refuse to go down to their level and say bad things back. I think you can turn people like that in can`t you? I don`t know how but I have heard of others doing just that.

Yeah, really hate those guys. I have had times when someone kept on sending arbitary messages and comments on my orkut account. Then there was a time when someone hacked into my mail account and locked me out. I really hate those times and these guys. Its like they don't have anything to do. But since online frauds and phishing have increased to such levels that I now keep in mind to never to accepts any friend request from unknown people and never to give my main email address on a link that looks phony. I believe that there are some real trolls out here in the real world. People who have nothing to do better than just interfere in other people's lives and make it more difficult for them. this is mostly due to jealous and enmity but there are people who love being trolls. I haven't faced any at mylot yet, just because of the excellent management of MyLot and am happy about it. Cause this is just the only place where I can and I do write whatever I feel, and share my feelings freely. Would hate it if trolls came across. Take Care

Yes, they are called stalkers. A stalker has an end in mind, and that end is usually detrimental to the well-being of the person he's (or she's) stalking. It can be awful, I´ve experienced it when I broke up a relationship (two, actually), and those ladies just wouldn't leave me in peace. There are laws against stalking now, in many countries, I know for a fact in Germany. It's one of those crimes people have a difficult time to understand unless they experience it themselves. A troll basically stalks you, follows you, interfers with your activities, tries to make life difficult for you. Sick creatures, really. The thing is, the whole Internet is so little regulated that it's almost impossible to protect oneself from sickies like that.

internet trolls... we really dont know them and they dont know us. but they love making our lives miserable. by harassing in ways of words and making such false issues to us and to everybody else. for me trolls are everywhere.. may it be online and offline. people who are so rude and just making issues for us to suffer are trolls as well. they dont care what people think and they are even happier if they see someone else being off guard and knowing that they annoyed this person so much. they want someone to get hurt, to be annoyed, to feel angry with no reasons at all. they make false informations about us. making our life miserable where in fact it should not be happening. this life is full of trolls. someone we may even know... while others just hide behind the curtains... just waiting for a moment to grab us and then make us afraid of what has to offer.. maybe they just love and like to make someone elses life miserable... and i dont know why... jhelai

Well you've described exactly my thoughts as to what an online "troll" is and what they aim to do. Apparently there are some lurking around mylot however I am very thankful to have not run into any of them. I have however met lots of great people here and some with a sense of humor that is out of this world. I did have a troll taunt me and several other people in a yahoo chat room I used to frequent which in the end made me stop going there. I figured I had all my good friends on my IM list so I didn't need to go into chat anymore and that's when I started stumbling upon ways to earn online. In a way I'm thankful to that troll if he hadn't made my life miserable like he did, I probably would not have gotten to know the good people I know now.

I guess that I have experienced my first Internet troll. Hmmm ... I wonder if the person will read this and take pleasure in being my first? I'm sorry that happened to you. *HUGS* I'm glad that you didn't quit the Internet, because then we never would have met. I have been having a really good time with you on here, and I'm so glad that we are friends. Lamb gave the "official" definition of an Internet troll, but I have talked to several people that think that trolls just want to anonymously make other people's lives miserable. That seems to be the consensus of people far more experienced with social networking sites than I am, so I think I'm going to agree with your definition. There are trolls offline, too, but for some reason these kind generally don't want to mess with me. I wonder why ...

Hey Angie Congrats on the 1000 posts. I agree with you that internet trolls are people who are rude to people on the internet for the fun of it and they kind of stalk groups of friends. But I think you should just ignore them and hopefully they will go away. I do believe Mylot probably has some trolls and I hope they stay away from us. Have a nice evening