Top Ten Reasons Why Online Trolls are Dangerous
We may laugh them out, or take them lightly and consider them insignificant. To some extent that's true. But when trolls touch highly sensitive topics, they can be as dangerous as anyone.The biggest mess. Kids, immature people, and inexperienced internet users are the biggest victims of this. When you look up facts and information regarding something on the internet, never go into the chatrooms for advice or information. There is a 90% chance you will get trolled. Never do this when you search for sensitive information.
Human psychology is like one hard concrete brick. Once an impression regarding a particular thing is set in your brain, it is hard to remove or change it. Thus, even if you learn the truth after some time, the false facts you learned in the first place will never leave your head. And that troll will be laughing in anonymity.
For this, a troll just has to pick up a highly sensitive topic, for example, religion. It's not hard for a troll to start an online war, and the more the war propagates, the more fun for that troll.
Oh man, the YouTube comments section is a war zone. That's why I stopped commenting a long time ago. This is a great list, by the way, Kiteretsunu!
The sad thing is, I'm one of those people who would accidentally fall into one of these wars by saying the wrong things.
These are the worst types of trolls. And they're such cowards who can't say crap to their victims' faces.
Also, those who claim that cyberbullied victims are weak are big fat liars. Why don't they get cyberbullied like hell and see if it's still tolerable?
The worst a troll can do. And in this case, it targets a specific person. I'm sure everyone knows what it feels like to be cyberbullied.
This is really sick. Honestly, if I cyberbullied somebody and they ended up feeling suicidal, I seriously couldn't live with myself.
A staple job for a troll. If you've nothing to do, just start a false rumor. Once a rumor gets popular, it has no traceable origin, and it's pretty hard to find the source of it (or falsify the rumor itself). It's similar to spreading false facts, but the difference is that a false fact takes the place of truth whereas a rumor is something created in itself.
That's what trolls love to do. Even if you laugh them off, that mess still remains in your brain.
They got into my mind and riled me up! I wish I could kick their behinds!
I'm sure you will never be able to forget about a troll.
The second you tell the truth about their so-called favorite shows or so-called heroes, or anything that they get excited about, they get all wound up and call you a bad person!
A range of responsible and accurate answers on Yahoo Answers will get a number of dislikes, and the bad and inaccurate ones would be left alone (or even get likes). That's equivalent to spreading false facts.
Like on Yahoo Answers. I got bit by a turtle when I was a young lad. Can I still drink orange juice? And idiots in the comments were responding: No! It will activate the turtle venom in your veins!
You'll get plenty of them in forums and Yahoo Answers. Though a little bit harmless, it's still a pain in the neck.
I see stupid questions on Yahoo Answers all the time!
Posting a single comment again and again just to prove a point. The worst victim of this was the "Most Hated Countries" list on TheTopTens.
I just feel sad for those who do this. They must be so lonely and desperate.
A way of spreading hate. Be it YouTube or any chat room.
War can be scary to millions of innocent people. Right now (a few days before the 2016 election), online news websites are spreading false things about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and making Vladimir Putin (the Russian president) look bad by spreading WWIII rumors.
I can't even go on Google without seeing something about politics or false things about both presidential candidates. News websites have turned into troll headquarters, spamming false things about Clinton and Trump. WWIII could happen one day, but no one will ever know when it will happen. No one knows if it will be nuclear (like what all websites say) or similar to the Cold War or WWII.
This all happened around a month before the 2016 election (early October 2016) and now (as of November 6, 2016, just two days before the election). I will not go on Google, YouTube, or any popular website until Wednesday, November 9, 2016 (a day after the election) when all random and scary things that look true but are pretty much 85% false will be a thing of the past.