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http://time.com/magazine/

How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet

Joel Stein @thejoelstein Aug. 18, 2016

Troll Culture of Hate Time Magazine Cover
Illustration by Steve Brodner for TIME

They’re turning the web into a cesspool of aggression and violence. What watching them is doing to the rest of us may be even worse

Updated, August 18

This story is not a good idea. Not for society and certainly not for me. Because what trolls feed on is attention. And this little bit–these several thousand words–is like leaving bears a pan of baklava.

It would be smarter to be cautious, because the Internet’s personality has changed. Once it was a geek with lofty ideals about the free flow of information. Now, if you need help improving your upload speeds the web is eager to help with technical details, but if you tell it you’re struggling with depression it will try to goad you into killing yourself. Psychologists call this the online disinhibition effect, in which factors like anonymity, invisibility, a lack of authority and not communicating in real time strip away the mores society spent millennia building. And it’s seeping from our smartphones into every aspect of our lives. (cont.)

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