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I love me some Internets. No doubt about it. As you can prolly tell from my frequent commenting here during the day and on Twitter, I spend a lot of time doing Internet sh*t when I’m not supposed to be doin’ Internet sh*t. Sorry boss.
In my journeys through cyber sex world, I’m reading blogs, news sites, message boards, and email. I’m on youtube laughin’ at some link that somebody sent me and marked safe for work. The Internet experience is like runnin’ (in slow motion) shirtless through a sea of daisies with the sun beatin’ down on my freshly shaved and shiny head feelin’ great about life then stepping in sh*t…or maybe not. Imagine sumthin’ more manly, but I digress.
It’s a place where we can all make up an alias and feel completely anonymous. Actually, you don’t even need an alias to say some wildness. All you gotta do is go on Facebook and type sumthin’ into someone’s honesty box (If you don’t know what I’m talkin’ about, you’re slackin’). That’s cool. But lately, as I’ve been perusing videos on Youtube, reading a blog message board on a site one day with over 200 comments spewing racial hate, and being the victim of Internet Thuggery, I’ve started thinkin’ about how anonymity on here gets people reaalllly loosey goosey.
Youtube is the worst!
If you ever went on Youtube to watch a random funny video and for some reason you see a message in the comments that says sumthin’ like “I hate black people. They should die die die!” posted by KlansmanKnight69, then say “I” and leave a comment on this post. Doesn’t it just piss you off? Like what they’re saying isn’t closely related to what’s in the video at all. Just reckless online thuggery and hate. I don’t know what it is about Youtube, but people write some of the meanest and nastiest things regardless of the video’s content. Anonymity is like alcohol for these people. It loosens their inhibitions and allows ‘em to voice/type how they really feel. I used to get angry about the ignorance, but now I laugh and reply with something the likes of “Yeah. Real Internet tough guy we got here. His boss is Black and he’s bitter and needs to take his aggression out on his keyboard.” Yep, I’m an assh*le like that. Victory goes to Slim.
Facebook/Instant Messengers
Less overall anonymity, but more varying degrees of thuggery. You ever see 2 people having a status update war on Facebook or subtle indirect wall comments directed at someone? It’s the situation where you didn’t know 2 people had beef until they hired some promoters? You ever have someone IM you and start typin’ all ferocious like they’re 8 inches taller and 100 to 200 pounds heavier? I’ve seen it all. The ferocious IM talk led to a man being choked over a railing tappin’ for his freedom. The Internet thuggery gets you no where in life. Why even bother do it and risk the person finding you and leaving stars spinning around your head?
Secret Tweet
Yep, gotta talk about Twitter. There’s a page on there that allows people to post completely anonymous short messages that will be revealed to the whole Twitterworld (thousands and thousands). If you wanna see what I’m talking about, go here. It’s reckless. I read sumthin’ yesterday from a person saying they had the Herp and would never tell any of their partners. Awful. I read another one from a dude who realized he was gay and started sleepin’ with his wife’s brother. Not even Jerry would air that one.
Oops, word count is creeping up. Need to end this now…
People really lose all sorts of control on here. I’d speculate that 90% of the people that tough talk on the Internet don’t have the ability to make eye contact and say any of the tough thuggery in person. Womp.To.Them. Makes me want to get real violent in real person…but laugh at the same time. As for the folks typing depressed and OD reckless anonymous status updates…have mercy on their souls.
So yeah, what are people’s thoughts? Anybody got any good Internet anonymity/thuggery/drama stories? It’s Friday! Get it all out and let’s have a jolly ‘ol time!
Anonymously,
Real Name: ******* *****
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I’ve been a drive-by victim of internet beef. There was a real cool male blogger who had a bit of a “blog crush” on me and you wouldn’t believe how chicks hated because of it. For real? Over a dude that none of us know from Adam? Give me a break.
Some people don’t have real lives so they have to create one with their keyboards. It’s so lame…
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Slim Jackson Reply:
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:40 am
“I’ve been a drive-by victim of internet beef. ”
That was a great start to my morning. I’m gonna start sayin that when people wild out on the keyboard.
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I had a facebook email thread gone awry. A couple weeks ago a fellow poet who is very popular in the area responded to a mass email I sent promoting my blog. He didn’t realize that the reply would go to everyone (sidebar: a post must be written about people who can’t keep up wit’ the innanets, le sigh…)… Well in his reply email he was asking to work on a project with me, but of course all the other poets thought he was talking to them, he cleared it up that he was talking to me, but then they decided to carry the damn thread on for a week being passive aggressively salty about them not being asked to work on the project. So all that to say: Adults turn into children in the interwebs….
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Thankfully no, I’ve never personally been exposed to it. Although I did go onto AOL one day, reading a story (I forget what it was about) and someone went on a tangent about hating n*ggers and such. People were going back and forth with the writer, which to me, only fueled him up….
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I was recently tagged in a note one of my triflin drama queen aquaintances (friend of a friend) on FB that exposed the truth
dirton one of her former friends turn enemy.I would like to share some of this with you:
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ARE ALL FACTS NOT FICTION!HOW COULD YOU HATE ON THE TRUTH!
LAYDEE CHYNEE or maybe LAYDEE CHY’HE’
First of all how could any broad who fukked 2 friends and gave one of them a STD have the
nerve to talk about anybody in a negative fashion?
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Your pumpum wah re-stitch!It drains black water like a ice truck!Go sitdown ina some vinger!
Your man said when you tek off your draws it smells like cabbage water!lol him
seh yuh cant breed cause the GONORRHEA NYAM out yuh insides.when you get
wife with a ring by a real HOT BOY maybe you can get on my level of bragging Because meh
Pumpum reallll good!
DONT FORGET I WOULD HAVE WROTE THIS ALL TO YOU BUT YOU BLOCKED ME OFF YOU PAGE FOOL!
**sigh***
What is wrong with this picture?
Why was the note 10+ paragraphs in length?
How does anyone benefit from you exposing this person’s dirt?
Yea I commented on the note, added my lol…but then 5 minutes after I realized, this chick needs to get her azz whooped 4 such a cowardly move & she probably will get what’s coming to her.
Plus birds of a feather flock together……
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ChokLitFacory Reply:
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:22 pm
LOL Yah…this sounds like some Reeaaal T.dot shyt right here!
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Black & Trapped in Toronto Reply:
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Yup its embarassing choklit!!! LOL
There are too many females here and not enough dudes which creates all this mix-up and drama…I want no part of it…but I’m sorry it was funny to read!!!
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Slim Jackson Reply:
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Not enough dudes there you say? Looks like I know my next vacation destination…as long as the crime rate isn’t reckless.
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NaijaSweetz Reply:
December 27th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Make sure you bring all your friends too. lol.
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The anonymous thuggery has to stop — except it won’t. It disturbs me that when given the chance, people will consistently choose to be rude, mean and unforgiving. But look at our society — there’s more than just our economic system that’s broken.
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I think the honesty box is the most b*tcha$$ tool for anonymity of them all. (My fav, and scariest, message sent to me was something along the lines of, “While you’re directing the choir, I ain’t thinkin bout Jesus, I’m lookin at ya booty.”lol) Funny thing happened with that, though…
When Being “Anonymous” Goes Wrong: Anyone remember a lil while ago when the HB malfunctioned and, for a few hours, you could see all who sent a msg to you via HB? Yea, well…this chick posted a note, copying and pasting her entire HB, showing the names of the ppl who wrote each message of hate/bitchassness. She, of course, wrote a personal message to them (within the note), addressing their respective messages. Womp.womp.
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MaPockets Reply:
January 23rd, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Sigh…
I remember when that happened. And what’s worse (!) is all the people who responded to the post like “Girl, you tell em!” or “OMG I like CANNOT believe this!” or “Technology is a b****” or “DANG YO! I had no clue those people were like that. What goes around comes back around…” or “SHOTS FIRED!! Those heffas are just haters!”
Wait…did I respond to that post? Let me go back and look…
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“If you ever went on Youtube to watch a random funny video and for some reason you see a message in the comments that says sumthin’ like “I hate black people. They should die die die!” posted by KlansmanKnight69, then say “I” and leave a comment on this post. ”
I! I’ve learned over the YouTube years, though, that it’s best to skip the comments. View the video and hit that ‘X’ at the top right of the screen.
It’s a whole ‘nother ball game on message boards/blogs, though. I’m a debater by nature, and nothing
makes me spurt like Old Faithfulexcites me more than an insightful discussion. Even with ignoramuses over the internets.As far as Internet Thuggery, I completely agree. There’s also Internet Swaggery. Like men have mad game comin’ at me over the Net and it’s a whole different story in person. I look at ‘em like, where the French Toast did you hide all that wit you had back in the cyberworld? I mean, it’s not always like that, but something about this keyboard turns a 5 into a 10 in regards to spittin’ game.
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OMG!!! I am reading that secrettweet and it is some mess!!! but some I have a bit of sympathy for…
n.e.ways… yea about a year ago I was pulled into some FB thuggery that I’m not ashamed of… no details, chick just got what her ignant as$ deserved… writing carzy sly ish on his wall
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Robin Monique (formerly Skinny Black Girl) Reply:
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Oh yeah! I have had FB beef before! Two years ago, a very similar scenario with my then boyfriend and some chick writing crazy on his wall.
Needless to say I will never again utilize the “In a Relationship with…” feature on FB ever again in life.
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MaPockets Reply:
January 23rd, 2009 at 2:19 pm
I HEAR THAT!!!!!!!!
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I dont have any stories of beef but for those who flirt over gchat. Please delete your chat history or go off the record for those convos. They can get you in trouble.
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Slim Jackson Reply:
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Hmm, you make a good point. Cursed be the chat logs!
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Intellectual Hedonist Reply:
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
I feel like I need a gchat tutorial I have no idea what you are talking about
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Great post! You ain’t said nothing but the truth. Since I started blogging I have noticed that 90% of the blogs I come across feature these people with really amazing lives. They have the BEST jobs, BEST social lives and date the most AMAZING people. Funny thing is, if you ever run across a picture of them, or run into people that know them, you quickly come to the conclusion that this CAN’T be true.
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Slim..question bro who the hell are you following on Twitter so i can stay completely clear of them?? lol
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Slim Jackson Reply:
January 23rd, 2009 at 2:55 pm
follow @secrettweet and you’ll see some of the craziness I’m talking about.
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