Reader Submission: Dealing With Digital Cruelty


A regular reader submitted this article for you consideration.

In the virtual world, anonymity and invisibility help us feel uninhibited. Some people are inspired to behave with greater kindness; others unleash their dark side. Trolls, who some researchers think could be mentally unbalanced, say the kinds of things that do not warrant deep introspection; their singular goal is to elicit pain. But then there are those people whose comments, while nasty, present an opportunity to learn something about ourselves.\

Read more here:  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/sunday-review/dealing-with-digital-cruelty.html?emc=eta1