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Trolls No Longer Living Under the Bridges

I have always been slightly confused as to what a troll is on the internet. I remember listening to friends in High School talk about "trolling" people and calling others "trolls" but I never explored it further. Now that I know what is it, I still don't understand why it is a thing. It seems like its a tiring process of making people mad or embarrassing them for no reason at all. It seems like a total waste of time, but then again so is about 75% of things I do on the internet on a daily basis. I don't consider myself to have ever taken part in any activities that would resemble that of a troll. I don't enjoy fighting with people on the internet and I definitely don't enjoy having people attack me. That is the fascinating thing about humans, we enjoy humiliating others and watching them be embarrassed. We glorify tearing people about, especially on the internet because people are definitely too afraid to do anything in person. That's the irony of the internet. We are so quick to fight but only when we are protected by that screen. As a generation, we have become stronger yet weaker. In my eyes, anyone that uses the internet in such a way is a coward and has no right to do so. The dark web seems to be taking over more and more with awful things surfacing every day. We are allowing others to belittle and spread lies about anything and everything. As always, the internet is great but it depends on how people use it. It's so frustrating that such a good invention always seems to turn bad. The longer I am in this class, the more frustrating the internet and it's user become. It seems that some days are better than others when I get on it, but overall it really isn't helping to have social media. I have a lot of hope for people to start making it a better place but that's a lot of hope. I just wish the trolls would stay under bridges and off the internet.  

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