Originally Posted by Xurtio

It somewhat bothers me that there's this whole trivializing of human feelings just because it's a different communication media. I don't know what the rationalization is there. I mean, people say "don't take things seriously. This is the internet." but what they really mean is "it's ok for me to be an ******* because this is the internet."

To me, it's just a real as any other experience; I'm interacting with human beings. Their willingness to treat other people like crap is telling of their character, regardless of the nature of the media through which they do it.