Eh, I'll have to disagree on the "people who are dicks online would be dicks in person if they could get away with it" angle. I've known several people who can be the most awful people to others online, yet in person are fun and charming and show all indications they are fully capable of having empathy and not being an arsehole. For some reason, you put a screeen in front of these people and they ignore/forget everything they've ever learned about social behaviour, because it's on the Internet and thus the people aren't real.
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Date: 2009-12-05 04:33 pm (UTC)