6 New Personality Disorders Caused by the Internet

New technology, new disorders.

But it's all so different when you're on the other side of this screen.

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?

LOL I have to admit, I am kind of a nerd for grammar. x-p

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

is it bad that i know a kid who has 3 out of these 6 disorders in real life?

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.

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.

Trollin.

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.

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?

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.

These are called L-O-S-E-R-S!!!

B S

haha, I used to be a grammar Nazi. I sTiLl HaTe WhEn FoOlS tYpE lIkE tHiS, tHoUgH.

Ha, the people who reply to there own posts with "no responses?" cracks me up!