What's everyone's thoughts

[repusDude]

My thoughts:

 

That modder have some good mods. Too bad, he removed them. Not sure why these events of Trump being US president or Nazi or over 10% threshold of trolls or some guy in Kansas influenced that modder to remove his mods.

 

That modder should get reminded all the positive and fun stuff of being a modder or something. Forget those all that other negative stuff.... or I should say learn to adapt/live with the fact that the world/internet is not all good saint place.

[Sonja]

Something occurs to me.... said modder has shown himself to be childish, bombastic, attention-seeking and hugely egotistical.. Hmmm... oddly reminiscent of Trump himself... :P

[TRoaches]

At the risk of sounding like an old person I really think this is the dawn of a new era of "internet kids", meaning people that were born recently enough that they have only experienced life with, and on, the internet. I really do think social media has, ironically, stunted the average 20-something's ability to exist socially. A BIG part of being a social animal is conflict resolution. Before the internet children were forced to learn to resolve social conflicts face-to-face. This is an awkward, but invaluable, experience that I think the internet generation is missing out on. Sometimes it leads to fights, crying, hurt feelings, and lost friendships. All negative things, but very valuable negative experiences that are highly educational. Resolving a social media conflict is as easy as unfriending or blocking the problem. This doesn't work in the real world, and if you primarily learn to resolve conflict this way you will never learn how to actually resolve conflict, which is to try to see the other person's perspective and help them to see yours.

Related to this is the illusion of control. In the real world you may have very little control over who you interact with on a daily basis. Rarely in life are you allowed to pick your classmates or co-workers. If someone is annoying you at work you can't just block them. You are forced to address the issue, ignore them, or find a new job. Social media has led people to believe that they are entitled to complete control over who they interact with, and this has morphed into something like "I voted for X, therefore X should win". They can't fathom the possibility that something like the elected government is completely beyond their individual control.

I'm far from a luddite and I wouldn't place the blame for anything 100% on social media, but it really looks like a big contributing factor to me. If memory serves the internet became mainstream in the mid 90's with social media really taking off about 10 years later. A person born in the mid 90's who started using social media right from the start, when their social development was just getting started, would have just voted in their first presidential election (or maybe just the first one where their candidate lost). For many of them the automatic reaction to perceived negativity or defeat is BLOCK BAN I QUIT UNFRIENDED, like our friend from reddit has apparently done with their mods.

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[montky]

@TRoaches

well said on a lot of levels.

[Fkemman11]

I'm not even sure why this is "big" issue. All he did was pull his mods partly in response to something he considered contrary to his particular ideals. He did say that he was getting "burned out" on making mods. I'm a little more worried about why some people in this world would walk into a public place and start shooting or blow the hell outta everyone for no sane reason. Now those people cannot be reasoned with! :geek: