Enjoy trolling online?

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Are you here after "bestowing" trolls and abuses on someone? Yeah? Stay with me. We need to talk.

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We are trolls in someone else's life and we don't even realize and accept. There are pretty high chances of you being on both the sides of trolling - the victim and the abuser.

This is coming from me - someone who has commented on a lot of things till date. And it's not like something happened to me and I changed just like that. I learned it with time.The hate comments and trolls and highly sarcastic (often offensive) comments can and usually do matter to people.There should be a way of expressing our disappointment and disagreement that isn't extremely hurtful.

We have different opinions about different topics due to our upbringing, some personal experiences and some tragedies too.We are too quick to judge people and bash them (specially online).

A person comments on a certain thing with a different intention and fails to find the right words and in next five hours s/he is homophobic, racist, misogynist, hypocrite, attention seeker, etc.

And yes people are genuinely wrong a lot of times and they need to be called out. They need to be told where they're going wrong.But we, the people on internet, just go after their lives. Memes. Abuses. Bringing in family members in memes and abuses. Asking the person to die. Saying that his/her parents should have aborted him/her (Seriously?).It all looks cool and fun until it's you who steps in their shoes.

We all make mistakes. Mostly, unintentionally. And internet has given people the power to target such people hiding behind a veil.

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This veil brings out the monsters inside us. The devil inside us.A lot of us are still learning, still growing in our respective fields. Yet we keep gossiping about other people that they're overrated or they're not deserving. It's alright to compare the work and we do have the right to call out nepotism, unfairness, lack of opportunities and failure to recognize true talent.But we go and use such words on any other third person.

I have stopped commenting on a lot of things now. Constructive criticism is fine. Jokes are fine.Just know the limit. Don't become evil in someone else's life.I just feel we should think twice before starting trends against people online. Offline too. But since online makes it easier for people to troll and get away with it, I'm addressing it.

We have the power to bring change. And that's when such huge population comes to best use. Don't go after every person making their lives hell because it's not always true that they are wrong. And even when they're wrong, we should not forget the person on the other side is a human too.I see people on Quora being extremely disrespectful to prove their point and I've seen some authors delete their answers just because they had a different opinion and people literally “overpowered” him/her.

Just give it a thought. Imagine being famous and saying something that isn't politically correct and being trolled about it for the rest of your lives.

Do not forget you're a human. The term “human” is deep; it makes us different from other organisms.” Humanity" is a positive word and I fear that day isn't far when the word humanity will be used otherwise. Only a few of us deserve to be titled humans. None of us are perfect. We are wrong too. But it's easier to find mistakes in other person, no? Where is this world heading?

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Whatever it is, hatred doesn't make things better.Extremism is our biggest enemy, acknowledge it!

P.S : Trolling isn't far from cyber bullying. And if your ego is fed by bringing another human down, you know what you need - help.