"Web site forums that used to be interesting and lively can quickly turn knee-jerk and unified, with those possessing quirky senses of humor or an interesting take on things shamed into never commenting again."

I really don't understand how people can get so upset over some text on a screen, I suppose you would call this cyberbullying or whatever.
To my mind it is just like the TV, which I dont watch or even own one because I don't approve of the lies that come from it 24/7, If you dont like it change the channel/website.

Also if you refrain from commenting because of what overs think/say then do you really believe in what your saying?

I Don't idly say this as I've bee subjected to it my...

"Web site forums that used to be interesting and lively can quickly turn knee-jerk and unified, with those possessing quirky senses of humor or an interesting take on things shamed into never commenting again."

I really don't understand how people can get so upset over some text on a screen, I suppose you would call this cyberbullying or whatever.
To my mind it is just like the TV, which I dont watch or even own one because I don't approve of the lies that come from it 24/7, If you dont like it change the channel/website.

Also if you refrain from commenting because of what overs think/say then do you really believe in what your saying?

I Don't idly say this as I've bee subjected to it myself.

Ok random rant over I'm off to read the article at source. lol.

I agree that clipmarks provides for a learning experience in general about human beings which would not have been available before the internet. I do think the virtual world provides some sort of refraction (rather than isomorphic reflection) of certain aspects of human behaviour in specific cultural contexts. I agree with the implication that a humanity represented by 'kindness' is qualitatively separate from one represented by a norm of hostility and competitive self-assertion. And indeed one is free not to take part; however, as in life itself one does not need to know how or why people may be hurt or offended, just that they can be, and such a knowledge that proceeds with maturity and wi...

I agree that clipmarks provides for a learning experience in general about human beings which would not have been available before the internet. I do think the virtual world provides some sort of refraction (rather than isomorphic reflection) of certain aspects of human behaviour in specific cultural contexts. I agree with the implication that a humanity represented by 'kindness' is qualitatively separate from one represented by a norm of hostility and competitive self-assertion. And indeed one is free not to take part; however, as in life itself one does not need to know how or why people may be hurt or offended, just that they can be, and such a knowledge that proceeds with maturity and wisdom may moderate one's own dealings with others if one is of a kindly disposition.