Twitter & Anonymity

Cretins, also known as people who disagree with you who you then attack.

 

They sound thoroughly awful.
You should name them so I can preemptively block them.

 

Is it attack or defence?

 

I don't do twitter so don't know.

 

I do, but not for football.

Either way, I don't think someone can be easily accused of attacking somebody else unless they have, whether it's retaliation or not.

Call someone directly or indirectly a 'cretin', and you lose the option to claim self-defence IMO!

 

Name names, John, I'm sure they're not Voldemort so you won't turn to stone.

 

Abuse is a very strong word. And very little of what happens online is truly anonymous, if people feel strongly about anything they've been subjected to.

I post on TCA as well as here. I've never abused anyone and wouldnt try to belittle anyone either. I would imagine that the same goes for as many people on that site as goes for here. No one persons opinion carries more weight than another, whether posting under an alias or not.

I wouldnt go near twitter though. It's a toxic, poisonous environment that in my opinion does real harm to people.

 

Twitter can be a good pace to socialise if you navigate through the sea of shite. Problem is, that sea of shite is full of people just using it as a soundboard rather than listening to other peoples views. My only real use of social media is on football forums and believe me this place and TCA are tame compared to most places out there on the web. Your last sentence is very telling and should be heeded by all, especially the ones who think they know and are better than everyone else.

 

Twitter can very quickly become a pile on when someone makes a comment, valid or not, and a popular account either replies in a hurtful way or endorses a response a nasty manner. It can be very funny and informative at times though.

 

There’s many of reasons people like to remain anonymous online, many of them reasons are very valid. If you feel you are a victim of abuse, there’s plenty of avenues you can go down. Throwing down the anonymous card and crying like a baby is pathetic.

 

From what I see, its mainly a platform for people to adopt a sense of self importance and intolerance towards alternative viewpoints.

 

I have my reasons for not splashing my name all over social media, something I've had problems with for the best part of 30 years and am currently receiving professional help for. I use the forums for an outlet for these problems, one poster on here who I won't name has been a huge help in my wellbeing. What I will say rwagridng abuse is some need to take a good look at themselves when throwing stones.

 

I think part of the anonymous thing is when people have shared logon details and it is then hard to find out which of many people actually posted. One example was the Work and Pensions(?) twitter account that an employee posted from. Not sure if they found out who it was but at the time it could have been one of many that had the log on details.

 

Being anonymous obviously has many disadvantages, like what you mentioned, and not least, trolling. But, on balance, I think the option of anonymity should absolutely remain on any platform, of course it should.