I have for the last 4 yrs or so, being totally bewildered <-- for lack of a better word...at how people behave online, my main obersavation has been with a chat format called Virtual Places..~like palace chat~..but more graphically intense, where users made their own avatars....forgive my bluntness, but I have tried for 4 years to figure out why people act like idiots online...The behavior that is displayed alot of times in the chat rooms, is not something that would be tolerated or accepted in a real social settings...why is it so acceptable in the chat forums, to be immoral? to be unethical? to have no integrity to do the right thing? oh and let us not forget the local bully's are alive and well online...The only theory that I could come up with was, some of these people truely are like what there personna's are onscreen..and the only reason they act like real people in society, is that society which looks you in the face, would not tolerate said behavior from them..atleast their family and friends wouldn't..but in a faceless society it is acceptable?? ~sorry i was long winded..i have asked this question over n over again to people~..thank you for any input
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