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Cyle Maxwell

Watkins

T, TR 9:00

October 30, 2018

Trollers

Do you think people interact differently online than they do face to face? Most all

people would agree with this statement, because most people have seen it or have done it.

Most people will act differently online than they would in person because some might not

want to say something rude to you in person so they say it online and you still might not

know who is it but you also might. The internet is not full of just bad people they are still

some good people out there that are nice online and face to face.

“People usually only put the good things on their social media so people think

they are well put together, because they don’t want people to see the bad things that go on

in there lives because they want people to think they have a great life” (Keffer). People

could be really nice in person and be really rude online or the other way around or they

could be nice online or offline. It’s good for some people because some people might

have to hide or they don’t speak up in person and the Internet is where they can speak up

and be themselves when they can’t in person or they get judged for being themselves.

People can act like who they want on the Internet you can’t really in person.

“Some people will express themselves more online than they would in person

because they feel more comfortable online then they do in person” (Reider). Some people

might want to share very little and some might want to share a lot they just don’t want
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people to put their face to what they say. People act how they do because they have either

been treated like that and don’t want that to happen to them again so they do it to

someone else. But I don’t really see the point in that because if they didn’t like how it

made them feel why would they want someone else to feel how they did when it’s not a

good feeling and they know that by experience.

“People have seen someone they know and they will act differently to them in

person then they do online. Some people tend to “wear mask” when they are online or in

person because they are fake or want to pretend to be something they’re not”( Lannier).

I’m not saying all people do because some people act differently in front of different

people, depends on how comfortable you are with the people you are around. I know this

because I do it not because i’m fake but because I have different comfortability with

different people.

Just because they act online how they do doesn’t mean that that’s how they are in

person. “Personality traits are filtered through the web, especially the new breed of short

message online services it’s slim. Digital health experts have observed numerous

transformations when someone ascends the Internets world stage. Whether a person is

overly chatty or arrogant on Twitter doesn’t necessarily reflect on how he or she acts in

the real world” (Milian).

Older people say that we use our phones too much or we are on them constantly

yes for some of us that is true no doubt but I see some of the adults on their phone more

or as the same as us. We are not the only ones that can’t go without our phones my

parents are on their phone more than I am. I do understand that it has become a habit of

the human race to be on our phone or have our phones near us at all times. It’s how we
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can communicate with friends, family and other people it’s how we get through life we

are so used to it being in the palm of our hands or in our pockets .

I bet not most of the adult and teens can go without their phone for more than a

couple hours, we are all worried about how many likes we get or how many followers

we have but people just need to stop caring what other people think about them. We do

not need to keep pleasing people that we actually don’t care what their option of us is or

some people online that we don’t even know. I know that’s how most of us grew up that

we need others approval but i’m one of those people that don’t care if your not family or

a friends or a teacher then I don’t need you to like me.

Do you think people act differently online then they do face to face? Some people

will say yes and some will say no. A lot of people will because they have seen it or have

done it. Nothing is wrong with it though we will all most likely do it in our lifetime at

some point even if we don’t mean to. People need to learn that you need to treat others

how you would want to be treated or talked to.