dcnovice -> RE: My last word on this subject (5/21/2007 6:07:36 PM)
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People online say things they would never say to a stranger face-to-face, being anonymous seems to set some people free from basic manners because no one can see them. I've noticed this too, and I was intrigued today to learn, from the Atlantic Monthly, that this phenomenon has a name: cyber-disinhibition. "Something," says Ron Rosenbaum in an article on folk who try to outscam Nigerian scammers, "about the lonely void in which online interactions are conducted seems to encourage the tendency toward the extreme or abusive mode in communication—because you're not face-to-face with the person you are berating or baiting. And the more I examined the scam-baiting community, the more troubled I was by evidence of this 'online disinhibition effect,' as psychologists call it." Ron Rosenbaum, "How to Trick an Online Scammer Into Carving a Computer Out of Wood"; Atlantic Monthly, June 2007
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