NetFamilyNews.org“Letting people remain anonymous while engaging in fundamentally public behavior encourages them to behave badly.” That’s according to Farhad Manjoo in “Troll, Reveal Thyself” at Slate.com. Really?! Not everyone, certainly. We know about online disinhibition (but see “Net use may be making us nicer: Studies”). And the establishment of social media’s social norms is nothing [...]
People’s “social intelligence” is impaired when they socialize online. In “real life,” our socializing is equipped with what author Daniel Goleman calls a “face-to-face guidance system” that gives us “a continual cascade of emotional signs and social cues” when we interact. It’s what helps the interaction go well, so that nobody gets hurt or makes [...]
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