Today we are discussing whether online aggression reduces the level of aggression in the real world, or vice versa?
When I just started working for Mobile-Review, I encountered a huge number of comments under articles and then still on the forum. We have a very lively and active audience, which is definitely nice. You can spend the whole day trying to prove something to the reader or discuss with him various features of the monitored gadget.
However, not all commentators adhered to the accepted norms of decency. Someone's messages were rude, someone's boorish, someone's just very categorical and irritating. The question of where so much aggression in the network comes from still torments me, another thing is that I now react less emotionally to it. What can make a stranger start writing very unpleasant things to an author, whom he does not even know in person? I also have no answer to this question, but today I would like to discuss not it.
There is a theory that suppressing aggression does not lead to anything good, so some psychologists recommend emotional relaxation: go to boxing, football or something like that. It's logical to assume that being rude in online communities can also be a way to blow off steam. And this statement looks logical in cases where a person has lost a game in conditional 'tanks', wrote what his opponent is not good and turned off.
But if we are talking about more sophisticated aggression (take the same trolling on the network, where the main goal is not just to offend a person, but to provoke an aggressive response from him), then it is weakly similar to relaxation, it is rather a separate type of entertainment. On the other hand, maybe the inability to make fun of people offline is precisely the reason for this behavior on the network?
By the way, one of my friends believes that any aggression is an indicator that not everything is good in a person's life, I quote: 'Judge for yourself, will the one who has everything, and so wonderful, cling to other people?' This statement also seems logical, although I personally know several people who have occasional banter in their blood.
In your opinion, does online aggression reduce the level of aggression in the real world? Or, on the contrary, increases it? Or is there no relationship at all between these two phenomena?