A Truth About The Internet.

[Kanatatsu]

That Lord of the Flies was right.

 

[omicron1]

Everyone thinks everyone who disagrees with them is an idiot, crazy, or part of some grand conspiracy.

The net is vast and infinite.

Infinet?

 

[Del-Toro]

That some people will use even the most inconsequential things to try and make themselves feel morally superior to you.

That's nothing new: I know people in real life who consider you subhuman for liking music that they don't, and God help you if they can find a 'ism to attach, even tangentially or illogically, to any of your entertainment choices.


As for what I've learned, it's that nobody in a particularly advanced field, like theoretical sciences, or in a particularly advanced branch of their field, like the military, has proffessional obligations and can whittle away their time arguing in 1337 5p34k on the internet. Doctors don't have patients, scientists don't have the limits of human understand to push, and soldiers duties to carry out or wars to fight, all of them have only the internet. Everyone whom you disagree with, and whom you inform of this, is an astronaught or an astrophysicist or Navy SEAL or in possession of an otherwise impressive sounding job title relevant, usually, to the discussion at hand.

 

[Woodsey]

There are things that even I find difficult to masturbate to.

 

[anthony87]

Everyone who doesn't agree with everyone else is wrong.

I also believe that TV Tropes is some sort of conspiracy to stop all productivity in the world.

 

[Scarim Coral]

While I used to believe that you can find anything on the internet however my seach finding skill shows that not everything can be found.
No I ain't into anything creepy or weird, I often get asked from my friends who are looking for solution to a problem or specific tutorial in software like Photoshop, Micromedia Flash and 3d Studio Max etc due to being able to find stuff that other would have spend ages looking for.

 

[butternut]

That there are some people out there who have absolutely nothing except a stupid amount of free-time. See also, people who make Middle-earth/Azeroth/Anything bigger than a multi-story car park on Minecraft. And I bet someone has made that too.

 

[Berithil]

Every thing I can think of pretty much has already been said. Basically:
People will always find a way to ruin something that someone holds dear (rule 34)
Little tiny disagreements will almost always turn into full scale flame war (you have a different opinion than me? Screw you!)
That a logical debate seems to be more rare than a dodo and that some people, for some inexplicable reason, just like making others mad.

Also captcha: apedays observed. What? Do we know have national day/ week to recognise apes?

 

[TitanDrone]

Anything anyone says or does has the potential to insult. Global speed-of-light interwebs have given humans the ability to insult everyone at once, and most of them cannot handle it.

 

[Sarge034]

That nothing is off limits and the internet is something like this....

Spoiler: Someone posts something on the net.

Spoiler: People read what is posted on the net.

Spoiler: People respond to what is on the net.

Spoiler: OP reads the replies and responds.

Spoiler: People read OP's replies

Spoiler: OP reads their replies and is in awe of him/herself

 

[Zeetchmen]

A sense of community can be made without ever interacting with other people in person, on image boards.

 

[ablac]

That when everyone can speak to everyone else without much hindrance then humanity's true nature and values are brought to light. It is great and terrible and also there are cats and ponys.

 

[requisitename]

People can be amazingly supportive of one another and clever as hell. On the flip side, they can reach depths of shittiness not normally seen offline and display a willful lack of a sense of humor about anything. It all depends on where you choose to hang out.

Oh, and seven out of ten people have Asperger's.

 

[Phlakes]

This place is like a zoo for social/behavioral psychologists. Every tendency that people or groups have is amplified to ludicrous amounts. Just look at hate bandwagons (people calling CoD the worst series ever), that's probably the most obvious one.

 

[Irridium]

One thing I learned from the internet?

I learned this: Shit be whack, yo.

Yeah, this sums it up pretty well.

Shit indeed be whack, yo.

 

[Keava]

One of the older Polish Sci-Fi authors and philosopher, Stanislaw Lem, once said something i wholeheartedly agree with - "I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet."

 

[ToastiestZombie]

That people find

Spoiler: this

Spoiler: better than this

Both of those were made by me and I've got to say the second one is much better and pretty much everyone I know agrees with me, yet I get a minus score on ponibooru and less than 10 views on Deviant Art. Moral of this is basically, bitches be crazy.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

The majority of arguements on the net can be expressed with:

Spoiler

The majority of trolling on the internet can be expressed with:

Spoiler

Everything you could ever want to say is in picture form.

 

[Something Amyss]

No political position is so crazy that you can't find anyone who supports it.

On a similar note, no story is so crazy that you can't find anyone who believes it.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

I've learnt that if there's spare time on hand, it'll be sunk into TV Tropes, holy fucknuggets is that website addictive.

Oh and Rule 34.

Oh and Creepypasta is very much Your Milage May Vary [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YMMV]