By Muneer Shamee
Global systems of interconnected network is entirely an unexplored set of human behaviour. Open internet is a platform for trollers to thrive and achieve their goals. Trolling is different from fishing metaphor with the aim of putting someone down can feel us better self. It means a deliberate offensive or provocative post with the aim of upsetting someone. Trolling can be a minor annoyance or life scripling terror stretching bounces of free speech using or abusing someone. Experience users would go trolling for newbies, by asking overly naive questions, or by making new posts about topics that had been over-discussed. Veterans on site would recognise each others usernames and realize what was going and only new users are trapped easily by this. Relentless forms of trolling was meant to get a laugh from people in the known world. Some people irritate others for the sake of jobs, slinging racial insults and threats to upset others.
Trollers spend a credible amount of energy on targeting someone about his language, colour, religion, thinking actions and felt reactions. Stalkers just do it really leaving a vacuum clue that they are being stalked. Feminist are frequently trolled by their unexpected attacks, overwhelmed by volumes of abuse, getting attention by frustrating them and to discredit them wherever possible it can. They want to see how people react in their vicinity, want to shut up, afraid them and leave comment to distract their views and opinions, wants to threaten us personally and our family. Internet is playground with the people with sadistic techniques who seeks pleasure in harming people purposely. Narsicissism is feeling superior of others and Machiavellian strategically harm in order to benefit oneself.
There are different reasons people get addicted in trolling others. People hide behind the screens with the purpose of abusing others with the aim of maintaining good behavior in real life and abuser in digital space. Lack of patience results in inflicting pain and differences in opinions. Correcting other behavioral attitudes by trolling is seen as a part of social justice. Political or religious motivated trolls are common in daily life where bigoted or elitist people troll others. State sponsored trolling are common to attack a person who dares to criticize a regime or political policies. Lulz is the act of entertaining yourself with the misfortunes of others.
People remain unsafe and undergo trauma in day to day life because of trolling. Some oppose online censorship, make political statements and hacktivism taking advantages of the anonymity of the internet. Malevolent people torture and exhort by trolling leading to commit sucide. It encourages chain of anti social crimes and aggression. Professional one can attack or harm someone for money.
Stringent and effective laws need to be imposed for their quick action of heinous crime. We should make aware of social crime and conduct various programmes in schools, colleges for social welfare and start counseling of people to make safe of our digital world. We should ignore the prevalent trollers and also report to the police about their repeated offences.
(Author is a columnist. The views expressed are personal opinion of the author. He can be reached at muneer.udl@gmail.com)
