Is it normal i'm indirectly irritated by trolling?

Dappled - I actually read the story of that girl who killed herself by jumping under a train. The troll guy called her a whore and photoshopped her face on a picture of a train. It was terrible how insensitive he was. Also he has Aspberger's Disorder, I have it too and he makes all of us who have it look bad. :/

I mostly agree with OP; SOME forms of trolling are funny, like some of the fake stories on this site. That's not serious at all, it annoys some people but that's it. But cyber bullying and joking about any taboo subjects are never funny. Some crazy 1D fans on Twitter were saying this famous guy deserved to die, and if his daughter is so upset she should kill herself. I'm sure some of you have heard about Mitch Lucker, frontman of the band Suicide Silence. And his daughter is only 5. They also said Alex Gaskarth (frontman of All Time Low) should kill himself because he said he didn't like 1D's new song, and that it was probably his fault his brother committed suicide (he was basically still a kid at the time so that can't be true). Not saying all "Directioners" are crazy, but a good portion of them are.

People should be aware that trolling is now a jailable offence in the UK. A fifteen year old girl was killed by a train and her family set up a Facebook memorial page for her. Some guy left this message: "I feel asleep on the tracks lolz". He was sentenced to serve four and a half months in jail.

I don't actually believe he was being malicious. I think he actually thought it was okay to make jokes about a dead teenager to her friends and family. This lack of social awareness and lack of empathy seems common and I see it on IIN all the time.

I know it develops with age but I see more and more people reaching adulthood and seemingly not understanding social convention and how society functions. I see lots of people who don't think beyond their own self and their own experience. The world is important only in how it interfaces with them. In many ways, a lot of people live a video game existence where nothing is real and nothing has value.

Well, it's a pretty well-established fact that people lose a lot of empathy and are more capable of acting cruelly toward someone if they are not in the same room as the other person, or can't see them, or don't know them. There is a piece of research you've possibly heard of relating to this by the psychologist Stanley Milgram, if you want to look it up.

In today's society we are increasingly able to communicate with people who live on the other side of the world, who we can't see and who we don't know. My hypothesis is that people's empathy is reduced when they communicate online, so they are more able to act in ways they would never act in a face-to-face encounter.

I also think people gain a sense of security from being online and anonymous. People feel more able to express their inner selves that they can't express in the "real world", either because they have a social difficulty or because they have thoughts which are considered socially unacceptable (I think almost everyone has socially unacceptable thoughts to some degree or another). This can work in both good and bad ways. While you get the trolls who act in terrible ways online, you also get the people who use the privilege of the internet in a positive and productive way when they might not in "real life" because they are not brave enough or coherent enough or too anxious.

I think people who have a "troubled past" (I dislike the use of that phrase but I don't have a better one easily at hand) are more likely to act in socially unacceptable, cruel ways. Maybe it's an expression of their inner pain.

I see two, maybe three, different types of troll. There are the type who are witty and sharp, and actually funny. They are even grammatically sane. I don't even really think of those people as trolls though; they're a whole different beast. I wouldn't say most of those people go out to hurt people, more to create humour by being mildly offensive or by lampooning someone. They might end up poking fun at someone and hurting their feelings a little bit, but I don't think that is their main intention.

There are the type who say "you're favorite band sux lawl", and leave it at that. Those people are harmless idiots, we can ignore them. Maybe it's a sign of someone who is likely to troll more seriously in the future, I don't know.

There are the type who say "Ill kill u and you're family and dog, you desevre to die yu gay/whore/fag. No wun loves you.". Those people are a lot more serious, because those words constitute actual threats and are designed purely to hurt people. They're not clever or funny, and they're not trying to be clever or funny. People say "don't feed the trolls" because these people are often looking for attention, and giving them attention means they'll troll more because they know it works.

I don't know where I'm going with this. But I agree with you.

I don't mind trolling at all even if it's directed at me. I don't mind jokes about people who killed themselves as metioned above. I just don't care as long as they don't insult my favourite band.

I'm a troll who is just very gassy

Wait...what if...we just got trolled! *omg face*

yes i agree. i write out a long ass note on here not a damn story a note or more like im writing a book when i write on here because im truthful and all of my stuff is real not fake not made up its all true no fake bullshit because im not a faker-troll or a fake-ranter.

No-pointless arguments-Nope because some are true argument and not fake

On another forum I frequent there is a guy who commonly writes "Trollin ain't easy" but he is dead serious and his view is just seriously warped from the norm.

Idiots give trolls a bad name.

This topics gay.