IF YOU ARE A DICK ONLINE, YOU ARE STILL BEING A DICK.
THAAAAANK YOU. I swear to God, I will never understand why people fail to understand this. "The Internet" is not a magical fairy-land of no ethics and no consequences. It is a communication medium. If a friend of mine was perfectly nice in face-to-face interactions but instantly became a screaming racist ass on the telephone, guess what? I would not trivialize that as "Telephone Dickhead Syndrome" and continue being friends with him! What the fuck!
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THAAAAANK YOU. I swear to God, I will never understand why people fail to understand this. "The Internet" is not a magical fairy-land of no ethics and no consequences. It is a communication medium. If a friend of mine was perfectly nice in face-to-face interactions but instantly became a screaming racist ass on the telephone, guess what? I would not trivialize that as "Telephone Dickhead Syndrome" and continue being friends with him! What the fuck!