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Era, are you overly sensitive online?

What say you?

  • Yes, I’m overly sensitive

    Votes: 32 12.1%

  • No, I’m tough as nails

    Votes: 96 36.2%

  • I’m in between

    Votes: 43 16.2%

  • What a silly thread

    Votes: 94 35.5%
  • Total voters
    265

Raccoon

Member
May 31, 2019
15,896
I'm an American university student, and earlier today I made a tweet (personal account) criticizing my school and other honors students. Well, I understandably got several quote tweets from upperclassmen and recently graduated people calling me a dick and pointing out (correctly) how flawed my perspective was. I was pretty shaken, so what did I do?

I deactivated my Twitter account. I mean, I pissed off the music fraternity, I can't have that, right? Plus I made a fool of myself and pissed people off, and I felt really bad about it. Plus, I didn't really have much useful to say on Twitter as myself, although I recently set up a "Raccoon" Twitter account (mostly as a plan B in case anything happens here).

So, transcending from the anecdote now, I ask you, Era: are you overly sensitive online? Are you as impulsive in your reactions as I am? I know on Era I've tended to be pretty hot-headed and over-emotional, which I've tried to work on. But I don't think being sensitive online is necessarily a bad thing in other people, so I'm curious to hear what everyone has to say on the topic.

edit1: made more clear that my "second account" is a Raccoon account for Twitter
edit2: removed embarrassing and confusing misuse of the word "reactionary"
 
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Raccoon

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May 31, 2019
15,896
Quinton said:
I've got dibs on Disclaimer and Fiction tbh
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I'm excited for the spread out secret era twitter society that's gonna exist in 15 years ngl

sangreal said:
This sounds more like anxiety than sensitivity
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ShadowAUS said:
Jah, was going to say this. I'm had fairly bad anxiety my whole life and I've done similar things after getting anxiously flustered by a response to something I've done or said.
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oh man these posts explain so much about my era behavior
 

Dongs Macabre

Member
Oct 26, 2017
2,284
I'm overly sensitive to people using "reactionary" to mean anything but the opposite of "radical" or "progressive".
 
Subpar Scrub

Subpar Scrub

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
3,576
I'm more sensitive than usual in the sense that I try to consider what people are going through and empathise, but equally I call out people when their post is just virtue signalling and trying to establish some sort of moral superiority by degrading others unfairly.

I don't react very well to offensive messages sometimes. Depends on context. Some random on reddit sending me messages hoping I get cancer or commit suicide hurts me much more than someone getting mad in Call Of Duty in lobby voice chat, for example. I laugh at the call of duty, but disabled my reddit because I just felt tired and sad from the constant messages when someone disagreed with your post.

Even on Era I've been called a pedo, a racist etc from randoms and it sometimes hurts a bit, because I try my best to be a good person but if you're not on the same "progressive level" as others, you're clearly a nazi sex offender. Makes it hard to identify as leftist, so I generally don't anymore. I share many of the leftist ideals, but don't want to don the burden of that image. Kinda the same experience I had with feminism.
 
Acorn

Acorn

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,972
Scotland
I dunno, some times probably. My temper is on a hair trigger for people defending austerity and Tories.
 
Chrno

Chrno

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,602
the internet has made me less sensitive online. ERA specifically, no one here can say anything that would ever offend me.

I know people hail this place as a "safe haven" but tbh it's really not that much different from the rest of the net. Wearing your heart on your sleeve in front of a group of anonymous people is a dangerous game, on the internet or off.
 
ClickyCal'

ClickyCal'

Member
Oct 25, 2017
59,960
Chrno said:
the internet has made me less sensitive online. ERA specifically, no one here can say anything that would ever offend me.

I know people hail this place as a "safe haven" but tbh it's really not that much different from the rest of the net. Wearing your heart on your sleeve in front of a group of anonymous people is a dangerous game, on the internet or off.
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The one key difference is that you don't get called an sjw or npc here.
 
Grug

Grug

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Oct 26, 2017
4,647
I used to be. I used to have a chronic case of "someone is wrong on the internet!!!". I have consciously made an effort to let more stuff just wash over me in recent years. Particularly on platforms like forums and twitter where my content isn't even associated with my real name.

It's quite liberating when you just accept that 95 percent of people who are discussing issues online have zero interest in a good faith debate and have no desire to actually critically challenge their own preconceived ideas. Learning to walk away and leave people to fester in their ignorance and toxicity is a challenge, but essential for your own mental health.
 

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I couldn't care less what people I'll never meet have to say about me, but I also try not to say anything too outrageous or inflammatory because I don't want to inadvertently hurt someone's feelings if I flippantly say something I don't realize may be hurtful or ignorant. Taking an extra 5 or so seconds to think over what I'm saying isn't going to kill me.
 
Sabretooth

Sabretooth

Member
Oct 27, 2017
5,096
India
I think it depends on where I am and what my involvement is. I was suuuper sensitive last night here. But there are other times where I just shrug and move on.

Overall, I'm willing to say I come out as sensitive online, yeah.
 
Fat4all

Fat4all

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Oct 25, 2017
94,148
here
the only thing i worry about is if my foot falling asleep is just that or a sign im about to have a stroke
 
Sunster

Sunster

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Oct 5, 2018
10,070
Online, easily the most sensitive people are trump supporters. On this website specifically, people are most sensitive about Marvel then StarWars then Disney. Not judging that, we all have our things. I do however judge the sensitivity in any "Dating with big age gap" threads lol. People act like they are ready to die defending the good name of a 60 year old dating an 18 year old and that's gross. sorry not sorry.
 
ShadowAUS

ShadowAUS

Member
Feb 20, 2019
2,126
Australia
Sabretooth said:
I think it depends on where I am and what my involvement is. I was suuuper sensitive last night here. But there are other times where I just shrug and move on.

Overall, I'm willing to say I come out as sensitive online, yeah.
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For what it's worth I appreciated your posts in that thread, as well as Nooblet's. It's easy to come off abrasive when it comes to subjects you care deeply about, even when it's not intended.
 
Rosebud

Rosebud

Two Pieces
Member
Apr 16, 2018
43,989
I don't know if I'm overly sensitive or people talking politics on facebook are crazy, but I had to delete it.
 
Forerunner

Forerunner

Resetufologist
The Fallen
Oct 30, 2017
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It's whatever. I see people here arguing about the same stuff day in, day out. Nobody is changing anyone's opinion. All the happens is everyone just doubles down on whatever it is and seeks out more confirmation bias information to fit their views.

So I'm not really invested with anything online.
 
Sabretooth

Sabretooth

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Oct 27, 2017
5,096
India
ShadowAUS said:
For what it's worth I appreciated your posts in that thread, as well as Nooblet's. It's easy to come off abrasive when it comes to subjects you care deeply about, even when it's not intended.
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Thanks. It messed with me after, and it's still kind of messing with me now, but hopefully I can rinse that down with other thoughts. I've been known to go crazy in some threads. Early 2019 was a particularly bad time in that respect.
 
4 Get!

4 Get!

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Apr 8, 2019
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I'm not, but from lurking I know of a few good tests to know if people are.

Mention one of these things and you might find an overly sensitive reaction:

Kanye West
Dave Chappelle
Hideo Kojima
No Man's Sky
The Last Jedi
American Politics
Not wanting to be involved in American Politics
Controversial Anime
Censorship
Youtubers that might have slipped up once
Actors that might have slipped up once
DC Comics
Our former website
Game of Thrones
Gender Double standards
Racial Double standards
Music taste

There are more but these are pretty big ones on this forum.
 
iSnack 2.0

iSnack 2.0

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Oct 29, 2017
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User banned (permanent) troll account
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Hidlive

Hidlive

Member
Mar 16, 2019
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Here, There, and Everywhere
4 Get! said:
I'm not, but from lurking I know of a few good tests to know if people are.

Mention one of these things and you might find an overly sensitive reaction:

Kanye West
Dave Chappelle
Hideo Kojima
No Man's Sky
The Last Jedi
American Politics
Not wanting to be involved in American Politics
Controversial Anime
Censorship
Youtubers that might have slipped up once
Actors that might have slipped up once
DC Comics
Our former website
Game of Thrones
Gender Double standards
Racial Double standards
Music taste

There are more but these are pretty big ones on this forum.
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forgot to mention Video Games in general lmao
 
Akira86

Akira86

Member
Oct 25, 2017
19,612
always fight back, always go for the throat, always bite as hard as you can, always breathe through the nose and not the mouth.
 

Deleted member 23850

Oct 28, 2017
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Nah.

I'm only annoyed by people who pointlessly trash things they don't like, inserting themselves into conversations about said thing when the conservation about said thing wasn't even between them originally. This is a rule I also try to abide by.
 
hobblygobbly

hobblygobbly

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Oct 25, 2017
7,665
NORDFRIESLAND, DEUTSCHLAND
lol no way. pretty much zero. i am more sensitive in real life, but not overly sensitive. the internet is such a void of emotion/feeling, just can't find being sensitive of anything.

i have never got passionate in a discussion online, but plenty among friends, acquaintances, and complete strangers about any topic in real life.

and being overly sensitive is not healthy, being sensitive to certain stimuli is fine, but if you are overly sensitive to a lot of stimuli, this is tied to anxiety and depression.

and also if you quickly change/be a push over due to this sensitivity, that can lead to even worse situations for yourself.
 
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BADMAN

BADMAN

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Oct 25, 2017
2,887
Sure, sometimes. I don't think anyone is pure "tough as nails". We're all human
 

Deleted member 46489

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I don't get bothered at all, though years ago I was pretty sensitive. Now, I remain emotionally stable whatever someone might say about me online. I think it mostly has to do with self-love and self-acceptance (and self-forgiveness, which is a consequence of the first two). I don't crave societal acceptance or praise anymore. As long as I know that I'm a good person, who apologizes for and works on his mistakes and fuck ups, I'm fine.
 
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