6 New Personality Disorders Caused by the Internet

// added July 01, 2009 // 23 comments //
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The Internet makes people crazy. We all know this. The guy on the message board who just called you a shitclown for owning a different video game console than him probably would have been perfectly polite had you met in real life.

In fact, we're thinking it's time they updated the psychological diagnostic manuals with this list of new disorders that only seem to kick in once the person opens a web browser.
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23 comments // 6 New Personality Disorders Caused by the Internet

  • flyingkick
  • RichLikesJuice
  • Leonidis
  • KaramelSwirl
  • remanns
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      remanns  

    • Damn ,I really DID FORGET about that one; (MilchMann)- "The Rationalist" would be the term in social conversational realms, but in gamers' parlance we have a better term "rules lawyer". Or maybe he just has no sense of humor. Or maybe he has a subtle/profound sense of humor,....(without those facial/tone of voice/body posture cues,...who can tell? OH----right ----"emoticons"----no, please,....not worth the price of miscommunication.
      But then he could just be a sophist troll.
      p.s. his points are valid however.

    • 7 months ago
  • MilchMann
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      MilchMann  
    • remanns:

      Valid, but not valid in the context provided, people do these things everywhere in all social settings, to single out the Internet is absurd, and to invent a specific number of "new" disorders is a very foolhardy way to do it.
      It is a fact that personality disorders are on a rise and have been for the last few decades and a lack of social contact is the leading hypothesis of the day... but I would not rule out other possibilities. Remember the ADD & ADHD pandemic a few years ago that made Shire Pharmaceuticals & Ciba-Geigy rich? We have now come to realize is entirely because of a lack of activity... we started prescribing trampolines for ten minutes every hour and wallah, kids can pay attention all of a sudden, who figured, kids need to jump around every once in a while instead of sitting perfectly still for four and five hours at a time.

      In summary, there is a problem, this is an example of it though presented in ignorant form, and I am not going to hold my breath for a solution.

    • 7 months ago
  • Mark701
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      Mark701  

    • I just finished watching that video of the psychopathic little German kid. Wow. I am wondering a couple of things 1. where are this kids parents 2. why was he videotaping himself? 3. Is this Hitler reincarnated?

    • 7 months ago
  • curtisreed
  • MilchMann
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      MilchMann  

    • The misleading headlines on this site are becoming increasingly annoying as well as the citations of completely illegitimate sources behind them more so. This is complete BS... internet disorders... sure, through out history people have had an issue with disassociation (kings did not understand commoners and vice versa... amongst hundreds of other examples) because the lack of social contact removes 70% or so of our ability to communicate ("What the Face Reveals: Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)" by Paul Ekman and Erika L. Rosenberg)

      And for the person that thinks that people try to make them selves feel special on the internet because there are no repercussions... there are statistics that show 60 some odd percent of people lie about reading the bible on a daily regular basis, some test samples have found that 91% of people lie about things they see as trivial on a daily basis including at work and home... THE INTERNET??? people lie everywhere to message there egos, and people everywhere are chickens even in person, when you do find a person insulting another face to face it rarely turns into a physical fight... its a yelling match, just like on the Internet.

      Though the irony of the statements did give me a slight chuckle for a split second, vote this BS off, it does not belong here.

    • 7 months ago
  • Mudboy16
  • islek
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      islek  

    • I've seen all of these, for sure.

      I'm a grammar dork, but I don't call people out on it in web posts just for the sake of seeming holier-than-thou. My typing skills are practically nonexistent, and even though I know how to spell a word, that's not always what my fingers convey! Who knows if a person's error is merely a keyboard snafu? I do know that I can't take a person seriously if he or she can't type in complete sentences. That's why I am not a fan of texting or Twitter.

    • 7 months ago
  • remanns
  • curtisreed
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      curtisreed  
    • islek:

      there's a HUGE difference between a typo and someone who is either too lazy or uneducated to spell.

      I don't mind someone who types in all caps, or small print, and I never care about a typo.

      But if somebody writes a piece of analysis, even if I don't agree with it, and then some bozo attacks the analysis with a nonsensical tirade full of misspelled words...hey, he's fair game.

      call me a spelling Nazi, that's fine. But to me it's a matter of pride: have some pride. If you want to play ball with the big boys and opine on complex issues, you darn well better take the time to state your point clearly and SPELL like an educated member of society.

      Else...don't comment.

    • 7 months ago
  • Mymicz1
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      Mymicz1 [removed]  

    • Great, next time my explosive disorder kicks in I can tell the fucker he must have Internet Asbergers syndrome, Internet OCD and Internet low self esteem, a plethora of insults hehe.

    • 7 months ago
  • MissAmanda
  • remanns
  • asherp
  • curtisreed
  • remanns
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      remanns  

    • "A bunch of words that the little bastard didn't even bother to spellcheck".
      Great final line, and funny. An tru, U NUBTARDS !!!

    • 7 months ago
  • alivein85
  • alivein85
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      alivein85  

    • Its true. (Some) people don't have the balls to say some of the stuff they say online to a real persons face because they know they'd get their teeth knocked out. The anonymity of the internet allows one to imagine everyone else as inferior without ever having to put a face to that. So you can sit there and pretend you are the smart, witty, mature one; while everyone else is a prepubescent fat nerdy little queer/whore/traitor/animal with no life experience worth debating. Sound familiar?

    • 7 months ago
  • pjacobs51
  • curtisreed
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      curtisreed  
    • pjacobs51:

      actually, same disorders, new medium for expressing them.

      by the way, good job. no spelling errors!

      "Online Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (a.k.a. The Grammar Nazi)" Yep, guilty as charged. Although I don't think it's about trying to "order the world", I just can't stand someone trying to engage in an intellectual discussion who can't spell.

      It's like discussing economy theory with a country bumpkin: "what i dun lernt in skewl wuz that them rich fukkers steels from us pore wurkin class fokes an so we has tuh rize up and ate the rich."

      But...yeah...I like to bust people's chops on spelling. I'll get counseling...

    • 7 months ago

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