Raging at the Screen
By Barbara Poole
Web 2.0 has turned the Internet over to the people. Purchases are made, decisions are reached, opinions are formed, and impressions are indelibly forged by the open Internet. Whether it is Amazon, the NY Times, a Yahoo department, etc. comments are increasingly full of rage. Is it the end of civility? Or is it the freedom that being anonymous behind a computer can bring?
The intensity of comments made, the vicious remarks that are flung out, and the general crassness of tone speak to a deeper issue. As a people, we are angry with so many things. Government, health care, layoffs, economic collapse. It is a rage that is building up to a boiling point. Where to ferociously vent? Significant other? Try that, and it could be the couch tonight. At work? Maybe not, unless a pink slip is what you’d like for lunch. Raging at the screen is the place people go. It is an ugly place, best not traveled.
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