Statistically, the site is going to attract certain types of people more than others and, of the stories they post, it's again likely that will talk about something bad that's happened to them. Generally we most often turn to others when something bad has happened to us. With all those things in mind, the stories you read on IIN might be reflective of what's happening in the real world but it's not reflective of how often.
What I mean to say is that IIN is concentrated reality. You're suffering from the same effect as people who think cities are dangerous because there's a murder on the news most months. If you have five million people living in a city and half a million people living in the sticks around it and one person at random is murdered, it's ten times more likely that person will be in the city (because that's where people are). It doesn't make the city ten times as dangerous. Likewise on IIN. You'll find negative stories here because this is where people come to post them.
IIN I think IIN could be responsible for my trust issues?
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Statistically, the site is going to attract certain types of people more than others and, of the stories they post, it's again likely that will talk about something bad that's happened to them. Generally we most often turn to others when something bad has happened to us. With all those things in mind, the stories you read on IIN might be reflective of what's happening in the real world but it's not reflective of how often.
What I mean to say is that IIN is concentrated reality. You're suffering from the same effect as people who think cities are dangerous because there's a murder on the news most months. If you have five million people living in a city and half a million people living in the sticks around it and one person at random is murdered, it's ten times more likely that person will be in the city (because that's where people are). It doesn't make the city ten times as dangerous. Likewise on IIN. You'll find negative stories here because this is where people come to post them.
People aren't as bad as you think. :)