Yet, for some reason, it is breeding ignorance and hatred just as much as it is doing anything positive. Yes, the internet is making "hating" all too easy and more popular than ever. It gives the cowards and the introverted pessimists a voice they never would have had in the physical world. If you visit many websites there are always people who feel the need to hate on whatever somebody else posted. The anonymity everybody can retain gives people the ability to do whatever they want with little or no consequence.
Some websites, such as Ebaum's World (I know, not the most reputable site, but still receives plenty of traffic), offer humorous, often lighthearted content. But read the comments, and regardless of how enjoyable and fun the video or photos are, almost every single comment is a competition to see who can be the bigger asshole. It is a website where being a dick is a point of pride and the more hatred and ignorance one person can exemplify, the more they have written a "successful" comment. Websites like Youtube are sadly now like this too.
I personally don't understand the interest in hating. I find life far more enjoyable when you try to like everything in the world. Maybe it involves a little more effort, but at the end of the day it just makes you a more knowledgable, accepting person. I know you can't like everything in the world. But if you don't like something and don't have the time to try to understand it, why not just push it aside and move on? Why spend your own time focusing on shitting all over something you don't like? Do people really not have other things they would prefer to do?
There are people who genuinely enjoy hating and negativity and it baffles me. You can find haters in all corners of the web. There will always be that person who disagrees. And disagreeing is fine. Not everybody likes everything. That is normal, that is fine. But when people have to add unnecessary touches, or massive doses, of negativity and hatred that is what I don't understand.
If you visit any articles, reviews or profiles for bands or movies there will always be debates in the comment section about the quality of the artist or piece of work. There is ALWAYS people saying "this sucks" or "this is the worst thing I've seen in my life." That is being an asshole. No, it (probably) doesn't suck and it's probably not the worst thing you've ever seen in your life. It sucks to you, but that simply means you don't like it. By saying it sucks you are being unnecessarily negative and "hating" instead of just stating your opinion in a less offensive manner. And even if it does suck, the person making it probably doesn't think it sucks, so why put them down more than you have to?
What is the root of this hating? It comes down to the fact that hating is just easier to do. You don't have to understand something to hate it or dislike it. You can just say it sucks and not apply too much brain power to comprehending it. You can resort to your usual bank of ignorant comments that can apply to anything in the world you don't like. It is far easier than spending the time trying to understand something if you don't naturally like it.
To like something, or at the very least accept it, is to either understand it or have some attraction to it. If the natural attraction isn't there, too many people can't be bothered trying to understand it, so they hate on it. If they hate on it without trying to understand it there argument will mostly be "it sucks. It's stupid. I can't believe I wasted my time on this. blah blah blah it's so obvious that I have given this no thought." There are people who do try and understand something and still don't like it, and again, that is OK. But why be so negative and whiny about it? It's perpetuating a shit attitude that is becoming widely accepted across the internet. It's making negativity, ignorance and hatred more present than ever in the world and slowly making it appear OK. The internet gives everybody with access the ability to understand as much as they choose to, but too many people choose the path of ignorance. And I just don't get it.
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