Thursday, November 7, 2019
Real-World Trolls
Chapter 11 of "Social Media for Strategic Communication" delves into very relevant topic in today's day and age. That is none other than the subject matter of internet trolls. Trolls are essentially haters. They comment on your pictures leaving nothing but negative feedback. Everything they put is just trying to bring you down, and often times they want nothing more than for you to respond to their hate. It fuels their weird, twisted fire. Trolls are the kind of thing that seem easy to ignore. I mean all you have to do is not read the comment section, right? Wrong. Well, not exactly wrong because if you never read the comments you would avoid a lot of the hate. However, avoiding comment sections if you are famous is not exactly a great thing to do because that means you are also neglecting all your loyal fans leaving positive, loving comments. So, if you don't respond to your true fans then they will eventually stop commenting, or following you, all together. Thus, while it is easy to tell people to avoid reading negative comments it is almost impossible. One example of someone who let the trolls get to him is Ed Sheeran. He read all the negativity and eventually deleted his Twitter account because of it. Thus, it seems that trolls no longer reside under bridges as they have since the dawn of time. Now, they reside within the firewalls of our beloved internet.
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When my younger brother first created social media accounts, he thought a great idea would be to troll me. Now at first it was amusing, then it became annoying. He has since grown out of that but while this was minor, I'm sure dealing with trolls is not pleasant. I think you bring up a good point in that you shouldn't ignore all of the comments together because you neglect the loyal followers. Although you may come across the bad comments here and there, never forget to count the good.
ReplyDeleteTrolls on the internet can be funny, they are funny until they are trolling you. I personally do not have much experience dealing with trolls on the internet, but have seen some experiences similar to the Ed Sheeran examples provided in your post. I feel that these users tend to take things too far majority of the times and lead into cyber bullying other peers and users.
ReplyDeleteTo my mind, there are not so many internet-trolls than it was before. Maybe I just do not face them as they usually annoy famous people. Anyway, today the issue of internet bullying is so hyped that it is easier to cope with it.
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