Let's think. What're we all doing when we're reading this message? We're obviously using the Internet. What most people don't think about when using the Internet, is that there's a society here, too. I'm wanting to discuss the Internet culture for a few reasons, one being is this recently came up on my site, second being, this may discourage scammers.
Well, we shall begin with real life society. What are the basis of society? Well, there's fundamental laws, in each region, and there's a ruler/head of government figure in each region. Then, in society, there's a few basic laws, apart from the government laws. These are basically unspoken rules of life. Don't lie, and don't steal are two good examples.
Now, let's have a look at Internet society compared to real life society. The Internet is divided into web pages, each web page has their own set of laws, and their owner or group of owners. Now, let's look at basic Internet laws/unspoken rules that apply. Oh, wait, there is none.
Now, how does this translate onto the Internet? What image is given to the user of the Internet? There has come to be a simple statement: "Dude, it's just the Internet." The thing is, when something is done here, on the internet, its results may, and usually do somehow carry over to the real world, and even if they do not, are you breaking a moral code?
Here's a good example of the current Internet society, it's my own example. On my site, there's a few administrators. Well, I found out one of them was causing trouble. I didn't really look so much at the trouble as I did the persons details. Me and him talked, from time to time, and I somewhat knew things about him, and how his life was. From what he told me, it wasn't great. Now, once I started talking to the other administrators, I got different pieces of the same puzzle. Some of the things he told me were different from what he told the another. So, we found a liar. After some digging, I found the picture he was using to be fake, and seeing as some of his stories about his life were based on those pictures, those facts were no longer facts. I had really no intention of confronting him, I demoted him, and moved along. After some time, another admin account was hacked by him, and he was trying to do harm to the website. At this point, he got confronted about his lying, which he had kept up for about a year. The response I got was "Dude, it's just the Internet, so what if I lied here, I don't lie in real life." So, that somewhat hit me like a train, Internet society is quite accepting of things that aren't accepted in normal society.
What can we gather from that? Essentially, the internet sets different standards. Why should, just because you don't physically know the person, you have the ability to lie to them, and then not feel remorse? Lets take a bigger example, that we see here on Sythe quite a bit: Scamming. That's, no ifs or buts about it, stealing. Now, why is it that these people find it's quite alright to be stealing on the Internet? It's quite obvious not even a half of them would steal in real life, but why do they steal here? Because of Internet society.
What do you think of the Internet society? How will Internet society impact real life society as time passes on? Why do people believe that it's quite alright to do certain things on the Internet, yet they would never do such a thing in real life?
Please discuss.
Well, we shall begin with real life society. What are the basis of society? Well, there's fundamental laws, in each region, and there's a ruler/head of government figure in each region. Then, in society, there's a few basic laws, apart from the government laws. These are basically unspoken rules of life. Don't lie, and don't steal are two good examples.
Now, let's have a look at Internet society compared to real life society. The Internet is divided into web pages, each web page has their own set of laws, and their owner or group of owners. Now, let's look at basic Internet laws/unspoken rules that apply. Oh, wait, there is none.
Now, how does this translate onto the Internet? What image is given to the user of the Internet? There has come to be a simple statement: "Dude, it's just the Internet." The thing is, when something is done here, on the internet, its results may, and usually do somehow carry over to the real world, and even if they do not, are you breaking a moral code?
Here's a good example of the current Internet society, it's my own example. On my site, there's a few administrators. Well, I found out one of them was causing trouble. I didn't really look so much at the trouble as I did the persons details. Me and him talked, from time to time, and I somewhat knew things about him, and how his life was. From what he told me, it wasn't great. Now, once I started talking to the other administrators, I got different pieces of the same puzzle. Some of the things he told me were different from what he told the another. So, we found a liar. After some digging, I found the picture he was using to be fake, and seeing as some of his stories about his life were based on those pictures, those facts were no longer facts. I had really no intention of confronting him, I demoted him, and moved along. After some time, another admin account was hacked by him, and he was trying to do harm to the website. At this point, he got confronted about his lying, which he had kept up for about a year. The response I got was "Dude, it's just the Internet, so what if I lied here, I don't lie in real life." So, that somewhat hit me like a train, Internet society is quite accepting of things that aren't accepted in normal society.
What can we gather from that? Essentially, the internet sets different standards. Why should, just because you don't physically know the person, you have the ability to lie to them, and then not feel remorse? Lets take a bigger example, that we see here on Sythe quite a bit: Scamming. That's, no ifs or buts about it, stealing. Now, why is it that these people find it's quite alright to be stealing on the Internet? It's quite obvious not even a half of them would steal in real life, but why do they steal here? Because of Internet society.
What do you think of the Internet society? How will Internet society impact real life society as time passes on? Why do people believe that it's quite alright to do certain things on the Internet, yet they would never do such a thing in real life?
Please discuss.
