“When users can be anonymous (or even hide behind a social media avatar), the temptation to behave in an anti-social manner is too much for some to resist. Please note I said “some”. But you only have to read the comments after any Broadsheet post or Guardian Comment Is Free piece to realise that “some” is a significant number. Here, you’ll see that a significant minority quickly morph into the kind of people you’d cross the street to avoid in real life. Psychologists would have a field day with such Walter Mitty antics, as office dudes become keyboard warriors once they log on to their favourite online hangout as SmurfKnight69.”


That’s YOU.

You are literally morphing into Smurfs.

Or smurfing into Morphs, if you want to be pedantic.

Moving To A Post-Comments World (Jim Carroll, On The Record, Irish Times)

Illustration by Robert Carter

Thanks @Stephenledwidge

Pic via The Plastic Mancunian

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