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I’m So Tired of the Astonishing Number of Nasty People Online!
Why are people so nasty to each other?
Last night I was scrolling through one of my conservation group feeds on social media. In general, I like stories about nature and read them frequently. But, I quickly became disgusted because there was an ensuing argument between posters on what a particular photo showed. What the poster wanted to know was what they saw while red raspberry picking blackberries or black caps? A picture of unripe (green) berries was shown.
I don’t know the difference, so I read on in the post. Wow, did people get nasty! I just don’t understand this. Obviously, there are a lot of opinionated, vocal people out there that have a need to share what they think they know and shut everyone else down. One woman became nasty when another poster wanted to transplant some of these plants and basically told her in a very nasty way, with a very nasty tone (at least the way I interpreted it) that transplantation would not work.
I’ve found this nastiness to be prevalent in conservation, nature, ecology, and gardening groups. Why? I don’t really know. It’s like the nasty people cannot tolerate someone who 1) knows nothing about the subject but is trying to learn, 2) has a different take on the subject — offering a different opinion, or opposing information, and 3) wants to come off…
