Why are so many people rude in cyberspace?

Tuesday 07th October, 05:21 AM JST

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Triple888 at 10:03 PM JST - 7th October

Everyone speaks their mind in cyberspace because no one is showing their faces. Like me, I can't see myself being so critical on news subjects in real life! ^^
bamboohat at 10:39 PM JST - 7th October

So many people are rude in cyberspace. What a generalization. How many people? the Majority? More than in real life? more rude than drivers? how do you define rude? disagreeable? I would say that becasue you have to actaully seek out message boards, they aren't there in public in your daily life, you actaully choose to go there, therefore you choose to read content, AND becasue you can't really know anyone well enough to really insult them, AND comments posted, read don't occur in real time, it would follow that it is IMPOSSIBLE to be rude on cyberspace.

I think the more important question is people being rude in real life, and not a silly "why are people rude" but "how to deal with them appropriately without lowering your own mood" type of question.
mareo2 at 11:31 PM JST - 7th October

Maybe one of the reasons is that verbal violence is the last resource for state an opinion. Is very common that if we cant think something inteligent to say, in place of just stay quiet, we say something rude. Im happy that we can discuse controversial topics in an anonimous way. But is disapointing when the thread end looking like Trash TV.
rjdsr at 12:23 AM JST - 8th October

Because it's not real. It's just the internet, and discussion forums are a great place to have fun with other users, who take everything so seriously and get all worked up.
kjunluc2 at 12:40 AM JST - 8th October

I stay outa cyberspace. I have acrophobia.
HappyFeller at 01:09 AM JST - 8th October

Cause it is so easy to fool computers and the people behind them.
usaexpat at 07:11 AM JST - 8th October

People in general are rude, when the format for interaction is annonymous it just gets taken to a higher level.
bushlover at 08:22 AM JST - 8th October

How should we know the answer to this stupid question? The nerve of some of these questions!!
Nippon5 at 09:28 AM JST - 8th October

Why do games like the Simms make it so big? Why do massive multi player online games do so well? Why do people have 10 handles on one web site blog?

The answer isnt black and white.

Some people feel they can be anything they want when they are behind the keyboard.

Some use the internet to feel empowered and in real life wouldnt even squeak at all around others, but on the internet they can pump their chest and be rude to others.

Some people are looking for conversation with like minded people and only option for them because of location they live in is the internet.

Some people are without a social life and find the internet a haven for them to be a social elitist.

I dont think its a window into someones true personality, more like a window into what someone wants to be.

I dont think people are more rude on the internet, I think its harder to express your views in written word then it is in verbal ways, so some people get frustrated and then get more aggresive..

All in all the internet is just on piece of the puzzle that is changing humans from a truely social creature to a reclusive creature and is going to create more issues as the next generations become less connected to reality......
ProfessorJ at 09:33 AM JST - 8th October

Some people are without a social life and find the internet a haven for them to be a social elitist.

I prefer to think of myself as some kind of big man.
Nippon5 at 10:32 AM JST - 8th October

ProfessorJ at 09:33 AM JST - 8th October

Some people are without a social life and find the internet a haven for them to be a social elitist.

I prefer to think of myself as some kind of big man.

**Some people feel they can be anything they want when they are behind the keyboard. **

See I included you :)
nikoniko at 04:56 PM JST - 8th October

NIPPON ご　ー　you are RIGHT ON word for word! can i quote you on the internet? seriously ... if okay, will copy/paste that and put it on my webpages (YT, etc.) giving you and JapanToday the credit

in my cyberspace life, sadly, i DO find more and more rude ppl. mostly online gaming and commentors on YouT(not sure if i can say their name in context here or not)

I for one, try to change that and add humor where i can, altho on this forum humor can get your post deleted. N/C.

Sure dont want to see humanity go "matrix" on itself.
tclh at 07:50 PM JST - 8th October

Because schools do not teach them manners before teaching them how to read and write...Or they simply think: rude is fun.
Farmboy at 09:17 AM JST - 12th October

Those aren't people. They are computer programs programmed to act like people. You input "McCain," "Obama," "creationism," or "abortion," and the program activates, typing output. It's mostly incomprehensible, sort of like the output of translation programs. Don't worry, though, real people aren't that rude.
japantodaykenji at 10:10 PM JST - 9th November

It's like being homeless--only a relative handful of people are chronically rude or homeless. It may look like a lot of people, but most of them are just passing through and will eventually move on.