1 person out of 7 billion does not prove much... Uhm... You would need a larger sample size. Perhaps this is something unique to you, perhaps it is evidence of your point, but without a larger sample size, it's impossible to know.

I don't get this whole 'you can just be an asshole online' thing, at all, for a second. Why do people think it's ok? It's like there's this festering nastiness inside the human race that's just itching to get out. Like people say the things they wish they could say to people's faces, by saying it to them (or not saying anything, as the case may be) through online communications. I'm not really so concerned about people being offended by rudeness, I'm more concerned about what this says about us as a culture, as a race. Are people just nasty and mean and cruel in the end of it all?

If so, I'd be sorely disappointed. I like people, believe it or not. I am just constantly a hair's breadth away from losing my temper, through a cruel defect of nature which mental health professionals have yet to devise the cause of. I've kind of given up waiting for an answer, but I have indeed had a rotten temper since before I can remember anything clearly, i.e. likely since I was born... I'm wondering at this point if anger being justified makes it any better an emotion to deal with. It doesn't seem so.

But like I said, I like people. I like having friends, I like my family, heck, I adore my pets. All of this venting at each other through our phones/tablets/computers only weakens any concept of trust and security in our society, to the point where I feel like a lot of folks just think actively vomiting their negative emotions on others over the web is a fine way to live, and even feel entitled to act this way.

Did I mention that I haven't had much sleep the last month? ...I haven't had much sleep the last month. Sorry for rambling. I have no idea what point I'm trying to make.