Online Chat/Message Board Playground Negativity Bollocks
It is my experience that for whatever reason message board/chat rooms generate a certain level of playground bullying 'them-and-us' kind of negative nonsense.
I have long known that it isn’t Reason or quality of argument which makes people see the light – that this is simply down to their personal consciousness. And you can’t enlighten another person – you can only inspire them to want to become enlightened ("You can take a mouse to water but you cannot make him think” perhaps?
Its an interesting thought though as to why it is that the internet is so overwhelmingly filled with negativity and limited consciousness, narrow thinking and small mindedness.
Given the global nature of the net you'd be forgiven for thinking this wouldn't be the case. But we often forget that for most of us, most of our internet interaction is based on connections with other people who are occupying the same geographic, emotional, social and educational spaces that we are.
The web is literally just that – a web of many many people all focussing in the same direction.
Given the immense amount of time we all tend to spend online these days its not surprising that we all eventually succumb to a certain amount of net fatigue.
I believe that its this net fatigue which amplifies the negativity which we experience. It does this simply by gradually wearing down our own natural positivity and replacing it with negativity which we then also pass onto the next person we come across who ‘gets on our last nerve’.
My experience as a teacher has taught me that I need to be energised and centred in order to be able to perform properly. Teaching a group of adults of kids when I’m tired is simply a recipe for disaster. The same is true for us all in terms of our internet interactions.
Maybe the answer is ‘little and often’ lol
God Bless x
I have long known that it isn’t Reason or quality of argument which makes people see the light – that this is simply down to their personal consciousness. And you can’t enlighten another person – you can only inspire them to want to become enlightened ("You can take a mouse to water but you cannot make him think” perhaps?
Its an interesting thought though as to why it is that the internet is so overwhelmingly filled with negativity and limited consciousness, narrow thinking and small mindedness.
Given the global nature of the net you'd be forgiven for thinking this wouldn't be the case. But we often forget that for most of us, most of our internet interaction is based on connections with other people who are occupying the same geographic, emotional, social and educational spaces that we are.
The web is literally just that – a web of many many people all focussing in the same direction.
Given the immense amount of time we all tend to spend online these days its not surprising that we all eventually succumb to a certain amount of net fatigue.
I believe that its this net fatigue which amplifies the negativity which we experience. It does this simply by gradually wearing down our own natural positivity and replacing it with negativity which we then also pass onto the next person we come across who ‘gets on our last nerve’.
My experience as a teacher has taught me that I need to be energised and centred in order to be able to perform properly. Teaching a group of adults of kids when I’m tired is simply a recipe for disaster. The same is true for us all in terms of our internet interactions.
Maybe the answer is ‘little and often’ lol
God Bless x
posted by Staircase2 at 2:14 am
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