I believe it's important for people to realize that they need to stop being victims. Often times people get so caught up in feeling sorry for themselves, that they fail to recognize the problems trolls are experiencing. For the most part, a troll is just a person who has nothing better to do with their life. As a result of this, they end up interrupting the lives of others. It's rather pathetic to think that a person would use their own time to try and hurt someone. Not only does a troll hurt others, but they hurt themselves by wasting their time trolling. Through this thinking, I believe that people should empathize with trolls. I have personal experience in this type of situation with someone I met in the seventh grade. I don't want to call out any names, so we'll just call this person Peter. Peter used to do his best to upset me during Algebra until one day I confronted him about this. We talked about his actions, and he confessed that he was trying to make friends but didn't know how. Ever since then, we've been great pals. By choosing to not be a victim, I ended up turning a troll into a friend.
-Jaime Izabal
I completely agree with your way of trying to fix or at the very least limit trolling. Though I am sure trolling will never go away completely as there will always be those kinds of people, I do believe that if ignored a vast majority of trolls would get bored and just continue on with their lives. With that being said, you chose not to ignore a troll and ended up getting a friend out of it. It is a risky option to fan the flames of a troll like you said, but at the same time you can always end up trolling the troll or coming to an understanding. Both of which are fine choices just like if you were to choose to ignore any trolls.
ReplyDelete-Brendan Stilwell