'Should I Stay Or Should I Go'

I rarely spend time in on-line forums, personally I view that world similar as I view going on a sea-ferry. Its full of trepidation, unsteadiness and I know full well it will make me feel unwell.

I have dipped my toes in from time to time, but I found I was having the same reaction, in that the majoirty comments that people contributed just wound me up. This seems to happen regardless if the issue is one of equalities or how to use a piece of software.

My conclusion is that most of the people who populate this world just love telling you what to think and behave and don't really want to engage in conversation or perhaps see another point of view. 

Sometimes when I revisit the on-line forum world I wonder if I might of been too quick to judge, however recently when I engaged in an online conversation my original opinions were only confirmed.

Some people arrive at a debate, make grandiose and offensive remarks and then seem surprised if you have any kind of reaction. My usual response is to use humour, but this only gets people responding to me with comments like ‘you’re not helping with your childish remarks’ like somehow humour is more offensive than actual offensive remarks. 

I wonder, if those people who are quick to judge in the on-line world are quite simply demonstrating how people are quick to judge, in the non-line world and that anyone who has a differing point of view is a ‘hater’ or someone to be swatted away like an annoying fly.

Reasoned debate or witty conversation seems to be a waste of time and perhaps a old fashioned approach when people on-line are more concerned with where an apostrophe might sit or that ‘people seem to forget that….’ And then just tell you how to think as opposed to celebrating difference. 

Then I thought that if equality was a cake, people need to share it and not hog it - its all there to share – why do some people want to hog the limelight/ being right, what is so right about being right? Does it actually make anything in the world good or better?

If I ever get close to popping back in to on-line forums I now have a post-it note which I wrote that states 'Keep away from on-line forums' - I have, and you know I really don't miss them.