Freedom
of speech is a wonderful thing, however it comes with a price, namely
that everybody is allowed it and others must accept this fact. Some
people might not be as eloquent or brilliant when expressing their
opinion, but it is something that is obvious and tolerated by us.
Unfortunately when it comes to the internet the problem of so called
haters seems to be much bigger than it would in real life.
„Hater
is a derogatory term which refers to a person who expresses hatred in
public forums, especially those found on the World Wide Web such as
YouTube”
People
who can be described with the word „hater” unfortunately pollute
the internet with garbage and filth of vulgarities, making it a much
worse experience than it could be. These people did not pop up
yesterday, but of course are a serious problem, that most people
accept as insolvable, or simply choose to ignore it. Coming across an
article in the Polish computer magazine CD-Action about haters made
me again acknowledge and reflect upon this disease of the World Wide
Web. Obviously I cannot post any parts of the article here, but I
will certainly base this presentation on my feelings after reading
the article.
YouTube,
being a site where everybody is free to post comments and nobody but
the person on whose publications the comments are posted can delete
or edit them, is very vulnerable to hateful comments. The most
popular targets of haters seem to be videos from games and pop music
videos. The article points out that in the case of Polish people, rap
music videos seem to be filled with hateful comments. But what is
really interesting, often the comments don't have anything to do with
the video itself. People write hateful comments towards ethnic,
religious or political groups and do it in the most primitive way,
ignoring any punctuation or spelling rules. Not only that, but often
these comments exhort terrorism and discrimination, also according to
the article, in the case of YouTube, most of the people writing these
comments are between 15 and 25 years old. Personally I find such
comments simply an eye sore for the users. Fortunately most internet
forums have moderators that control the content.
http://img.timeinc.net/time/0_video/YoutubeHatersADramaticReadings.jpg
Personally
I suffer most from haters when playing online games. Games, whether
computer or console, which are played entirely online are now very
popular and although the producers (usually) give it their best to
make a product that will bring entertainment, they cannot control the
actions of other players. Obviously haters are most commonly found in
free online games, since those are the most easy to get for
everybody, however even if you pay for a game it doesn’t mean you
will be safe from haters. Playing a game is supposed to be relaxing
and enjoyable, but how can one have fun when he is constantly
offended, has his intelligence put into question and, putting it
gently, is asked to leave the community of the given name and never
come back or even commit a suicide? Bullying cannot only ruin the
game itself, but can actually impact on how a person feels in his or
her life, ruin his/her mood or cause a depression.
Why
do people hate? Obviously the anonymity of the internet and the lack
of “face to face” contact gives frustrated people encouragement
to write harmful comments. But is it really the only reason? I for
one would like to believe that we are something more than walking
time-bombs of anger and hatred, just waiting for an occasion to snap
at somebody. I don't think that the internet allows us to hate, it's
us who have made it into a tool allowing it. Of course, the best
thing is to ignore haters, but I think we should also take action to
prevent hatred from spreading. I would love to hear your opinion.
To
end my presentation here's what you may like to listen to next time
some hater makes you mad :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K67veEPOYM
Comments
I agree with you that haters in relations face to face probably would be smaller hater or not hater. Unfortunatelly freedom owl in the Internet has good and bad aspect.
I very dislike haters. I HATE haters :D I dislike valuation: superior or inferior. We should be equal. We should respekt ourselves mutually. It would be the best.
Without it we should more interested in ourselves not others. The whole world would be healthier.
I thnk that Polish people have outstanding ability to hate. What do you think about it?
However, the same as you, I like playing on-line games with people from all over the world. I am also often the victim of hate comments.
My favourite way (as you wrote in your article) is just to ignore them and to pretend not to see what impolite things they write about myself, my country or... my family:P IMO the worst what you can do is to answer them, it doesn't matter what
you answer - this is the reason for haters to continue insulting you.
I suppose(that) they are teenagers with no social life, closed in their dark room, trying to build their self-esteem.
Unfortunately I feel that Poles in the Internet often express strong hatred and jealousy every time they see somebody who achieved success or even someone who is pretty.
On the other hand I think that people are becoming much too sensitive. Websites get closed not because they are hurtful but because they present different opinions then somebody likes. There are cases like that. Where is the line between where censorship is needed and where it's just an obstacle for free speech?
In face to face contact people are less brave to express hatred but also their opinions. I think that advantages of being able to share ideas and our creations on the Internet with people all over the world are much more important than some sad people that find entertainment in criticizing others. We can just all ignore them and even feel sorry for because they are probably just lonely and jealous of others. I think that they are just like this one kid in the class that feels superior then everybody else and calls them names. People like that just feel more threatening in the web because there are more of them but I still believe that there are more normal, nice people and that some healthy criticism isn't a bad thing.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/2014/09/20/twitter-suspends-anita-sarkeesian-critic-abusive-behavior/
I mean, people can disagree or dislike and wright a solid argument. In reality most of the times someone, for example, will say that he find some X band awful and worse than hitler, in return someone will aggressively try to counter him leading to flame war. And of course when there is flame war in comment section, there is no way to be reasonable in it or come to compromise.
I believe that most of these people have too much time, boring life or simply very low self esteem. I would understand if the comment helps anybody or at least spreads some interesting news but writing just to show your hostility is stupid and pointless.
I know that the internet gives some the feeling of anonymity and I guess a sense of powerfulness, but I have never experienced this myself.
For me writing comments is an activity that is already somewhere beyond my comfort zone and i think definitely most of the time my comments are neutral to positive.
I could never write such hateful words in a public space and I wish that others would be more sensitive as those acts of cyber-violence (I'm pretty sure that many cases would qualify as such) are sometimes absolutely horrifying. As for trolling, this to me is even more puzzling. What is the point of it and how is it supposed to be funny? I just don't get it...
this is sad that people feed on that type of internet "sport"
They feel that are anonymous, and this makes them to write such a comments.
I see only one solution, someone wrote something about this, we need to connect every comment we leave in internet with your true profile. Profile that was verified.
I think haters problem can be solved, because most of them would not write if they know that can be can be held liable
Some of them also envy that someone has achieved more, but still they are not willing to do something with their own life. However I do not understand haters, because I do not understand how he/ she finds time to write unpleasant and rude things in public usually to people he / she does not know…
I have never been victim of haters but I guess when you are you just need to ignore them.
The way haters behave in the internet: their poor language, vulgarisms, primitive thoughts reflects their mindset. No one should care about what they say and waste time and energy dealing with them.
Mr. Guy Kawasaki(major entrepreneur and motivational speaker) on his presentations tells how to deal with more sophisticated individuals(haters) in social media like Facebook or Twitter. His advice is "never go to the 3rd round of the argument" which means respond at most only once to the criticism.
We're livin in a crazy world. We've got instant access to all sort of informations, possiblity to take a part in discussions "all over the world" and to share our opinion on different things. Including negative ones.
I would say that hater is " a person who knows better". Even if they are not right, their opinion is (lets call it by name) stupid, hater gonna spend lots of time (somebody pointed it before - where do they find that much of time?:) I usually don't have time to read an article, put a comment on sth that is really interesting) showing You and other people that IT'S THE ONLY TRUTH. I would even say that hating is a kind of sport, way of living, state of a mind.
Tip: Don't feed the haters.
- didn't you rate restauration with 1 star without talking to the manager?
- didn't you post any bad opinion on some company facebook page?
- didn't you spread among friends your opinion about unsatisfactory service somewhere?
Any point above can be described as 'hate'. In my opinion it's just another marketing word to describe some phenomena.
And for sure it was introduced by PR agencies.
But haters gonna hate!
But I don't understand them as well, what do they want?
On the other hand, I think that another common problem is that people suffer from lack of communication skills. Negative opinions are often perceived as "hating", even if they have meritorical quality. People tend to take valid arguments as personal offence and reply with "hating".
before I fully started using internet. I remember till today when someone in primary school wrote a lot of offensive words in my mathematic exercise book. There were also awful pictures.
For hater it was probably funny but I spend few weeks at school psychologist.
Lately I had to change my favourite Diablo (best game ever) server because I couldnt get rid of haters. They had it in for me! However the worst place is YouTube. I would like to get some useful informations about clip I watch and there is sea of hate. How someone can be so rude and write such disgusting things about voice and beauty of Alana from Haim band? Violence creates violence and I had to answer to that accusation. I hope that YT will hire some people to keep order on the forum. I could do this job willingly and block some profiles..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc
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