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Understanding the Internet Trolls

Posted by Amanda | On: Mar 28 2006

Lately I have been unable to come up with a real thought-provoking topic to talk about hence the pictures.

Well, today I was reading about trolls on the Internet and unfortunately I have had my fair share of them on one of my websites. For those of you that don’t know what a troll is then you probably want to go here and read all about them before going on to my 20 questions.

In the last year, I have had the most unfortunate experience of coming across several people posing as moms online and stealing other people’s photos and passing them off as their own. Some of these so-called mom trolls were nice and were good at pretending to be moms. What were their intentions?

What really interests me is why do people do this? Where do they come from? Are they men or women? What purpose do they serve? Do they have lives other than pretending to be someone they are not? Are they crazy? Because I’m thinking they are mentally ill.

For the most part, these experiences have just freaked me out and made me rethink about what I shared online. I surely don’t want anyone stealing my photos and pretending to be my family. Do any of you out there have concerns about this? Have any of you experienced these trolls? What are your thoughts on them? I want to understand what goes on in peoples screwed up heads. I know the most important thing that they want is attention and they don’t care how they get it but WHY?

I realize that there is another type of troll that invades the Internet when they are unhappy with an outcome or mad at what someone wrote on a website. The person then comes into your site and personally bashes you then that person gets everyone they know to come and do the same to you.I have experienced this kind of troll too. Lately I have seen this happen in several mom communities as well. Why?

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