12-09-2015, 03:03 PM
My definition of 'trolling' is the act of trying to trick someone to say, do, or believe something the troll knows to be false. I would consider there to be two major subsets of trolling. The first would be someone who is making a light-hearded jest between friends.
The second is someone who is genuinely trying to wound someone in an attempt to seek gratification and (normally) to get attention from a crowd. This person is typically acting out past or present frustration in an anonymity because they are in a situation where they can't express how annoyed or how stupid they find someone to be 'in real life'. Eg, someone working in a retail or fast food workplace dealing with angry, self-important, and stupid customer yelling at them.
It may be a word that (ironically) is being overused by some. But I'm not going to stop using it in appropriate situations. I mean, you could ressurect the term 'gas-lighting', as it has a very similar definition.
The second is someone who is genuinely trying to wound someone in an attempt to seek gratification and (normally) to get attention from a crowd. This person is typically acting out past or present frustration in an anonymity because they are in a situation where they can't express how annoyed or how stupid they find someone to be 'in real life'. Eg, someone working in a retail or fast food workplace dealing with angry, self-important, and stupid customer yelling at them.
It may be a word that (ironically) is being overused by some. But I'm not going to stop using it in appropriate situations. I mean, you could ressurect the term 'gas-lighting', as it has a very similar definition.
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