The other day, i was sat at a friends house, watching him log into myspace. On he goes, into his myspace page, then opens “mobsters” and “vampires” (two myspace games). So, he looks at how many times he’s been attacked overnight, and he shouts “FUCK! fucking twats!”. i turn round and say, what? has someone hacked your account? nope, just some stupid game. There’s no real money involved, he’s rich as all get out in the game, but he still complains about the fact he’s lost 1000 “blood” or “dollars” out of his several million of each.
Now, think of all these people that treat myspace/facebook/bebo as super-super serious! Online they go one day, to find some bored nerd has left them a message saying “lol i don’t like you you’re ugly.” Wow, do the stress levels go up? it’s like, nought to one thousand in a couple of seconds! There have actually been cases where kids and even adults have killed themselves because of comments over the internet. This is the sort of thing that is wrong with society. They actually give one about some guy who’s 2000 miles away laughing to his friends about it. They don’t just delete his messages/comments, they comment/message back and get more and more irate/depressed until eventually something goes seriously wrong.
I know, because i’ve been the victim of these online hate campaigns. The easiest thing to do is to block the user/delete their messages and just ignore it until it goes away. These people THRIVE off reactions, that’s all they’re doing it for. You stop reacting, they stop trolling.
Now, on to another game: World Of Warcraft. Seriously people, stop treating this game like real life! it’s not! that guy you see moving around on screen is just some pile of pixels. Yes, it might be your pile of pixels, but it’s not important. Yes, you may spend hours working your character up to level 90, just for some guy to hack your account and delete the char, but who cares? it’s just a bit of free time gone down the drain. I mean, if you actually cared about what you did with your time then you’d just go out and do something genuinely productive, not level a pile of pixels up in some online game. It’s not real life, it’s just pixellated screens.
Internet anger:
Well, this is fun. Rage on the internet is becoming more prolific, according to a recent dailytech post. It doesn’t surprise me. These people treat the internet as a vent, a way of getting the stress out of their system before it becomes something a lot more serious. In the modern climate, what with Global Warming, The economic crisis, The War on Terror and many other stress-causing “problems”, you need a way of getting all the stress out of your system from work because eventually it may pile up until it all pops out in a dirty great big screaming fit at your boss/your wife/your kids. I sometimes wonder, that, if my Dad had his own blog to post about what happened at work, even if people didn’t read it or anything, whether he’d be a lot less stressed because he has somewhere to vent all his problems out that’s other than his wife/son/friends.
One last thing people:
Smile, Live, Breathe. Don’t worry about money or anything material… at the end of the day, if you have food and water in your belly, what more do you need ? I know i say i need my pc/phone/xbox but i don’t. I need food, water and a friend. I have all three, so life is good.

