Is the Interwebs in general becoming more abrasive? Now with junky gibs! (1+)

Since I can't use underscores in my name here, what should it become if not anto_capone?

Ugh, the complexities of life.

Not really. People self censor online quite often these days, unlike back in the early years of the internet.

Nah, I just believe ignorance travels faster these days.
Case in point - most of Twitter.

I am offended about the lack of potato on the poll, you are oppressing me Ni..ckelback
Go and eat sh..awarma, you oppressor!

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probably, i think more idiots found their way to internet and feel no shame since it's mostly anonymous.

You just have to realize a lot of people who are rude / smart asses / generally awful online don't have their lives in order in real life. They vent and lash out online, because they have pain/insecurity/fear etc in real life, they compensate by making themselves feel better by dragging others down. Maybe they had a really bad day, maybe they got fired from work, maybe they got dumped, maybe they have no friends. Just don't let anything someone says online affect you, you'll be alright. Like Tyler the Creator said (I will paraphrase lol) "Just walk away from the screen, close your eyes." lmao if it starts to bug you too much

Sort of.
It's not like the wild earlier days when some people were absolute twats but everyone sorta took it as a bit of a joke.
Now that it's as absolute and prevalent as it is, every idiot and their mum is on it and they tend to take everything super seriously, so whatever you say will open a can of worms of people flinging shit at each other because they just can't move past it or ignore it. And of course lots of people actively go out of their way too to be as much of a scumbag as they possibly can. It's all a bit sad.
But it's ok. When Google finally takes over, any slightly off tone comment will violate their ToS and give them reason for their Internet Police to break down your door and drag you behind the chemical shed.

I thought this was a serious post until I read the actual content and your poll. Are you trying to raise debate or just being a troll?

Too many alone, sad little people who just try to fill the void in their life. People who identify themselves by a single hobby, having a pet, belonging to a certain group or nation, while lacking real identity and character, actively refusing to listen or accept that there's more. Not wanting to understand, to listen, but at the same time having nothing meaningful to add to most topic, so it ends up with the " me-me-me-me" mindset. I guess everyone has a friend who would rather die than asking back what did you mean by having a good weekend, instead immediately starting to talk about theirs for minutes. Or just generally being shallow about "whoever likes X are just plain wrong" because they like that. Be that a politician, religion, food, pet, movie, music, anything.
In short they live in such a narrowed life that they treat the world as they, and their opinions are the absolute centre of it. Showing no interest, or even willingness to try to understand others, while jokingly or seriously, but promoting the idea that it's okay to hate on anything that's different. They can really ruin the mood anywhere on the internet - the typical person who rather comments on a topic how they dislike something than just let it go along. Overinflated feel of self-importance, and at the same time just not caring about others, trying to silence or devaluate them. Quite widespread since the community media is so multi-layered and accessible. ( I think twitter made it somewhat worse - short messages help angry yapping and cussing more than any meaningful discussion)

GAFAMs and SJWs are ruining it, hence normal people get pissed 👀

nah, it is coherent with the spirit of the postmodern humans, in line with the social global context with its countless facets, from country to country, from ethnicity to ethnicity, race to race, social class to social class, and so on.

gotta enjoy it while it last. before a politician along with its own mentally retard fanbase decides that it is better for all of us to give the key of internet free speech to a government or private entity because of muh hate speech/fake news/anonymity/right wing movements on the rise/cyberbullism/ISIS recruiting members on chats rooms.

I think somewhere there is a bunch of shrinks treating people with severe social disorders by sending them online to socialize... yep that was a good idea.

I think it has always been the same, but now because day-by-day the internet is more accessible, we just see more of the same.

internet is getting worse!
i want to be racist and homophobic but they deny my freedom of speech!

it's all because of these sjw peasants!

feminists are also bad!

The internet just gets more crowded, that's all. Only difference to 'real life' is, that people are more open about it since they're talking shit in their little safe zone behind the monitor, just as they did before and as they'll probably continue to do (and they most likely do it in the physical world too anyway, though you just can't catch it that easily because they mainly do it when you're not present and it doesn't get saved somewhere on some server for you to read about it later). Try to take it as a compliment, something you did seems to have rattled their cage and bruised their tiny, little ego...

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Thank you for your giveaways, Antocapone! :-)

The internet is like the real world, you have good people and you have some very bad ones. The only difference is that on the internet these bad ones tend to be compulsive liars with a very large mouth and that in the real world these very same people would run away and hide like cowards. ^^