From: vintageapplemac@gmail.com   
      
   In article <10dnmq7$pcmk$1@dont-email.me>, Mark  wrote:   
      
   > ~misfit~  wrote:   
   > > On 27/10/2025 10:27 pm, Sir Tim wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> Dominates the weekend, drives brilliantly ……and gets booed!   
   > >> What’s with people?   
   > >   
   > > Yeah. People! The world's turning to shit and I blame social media for   
   > > accelerating it.   
   >   
   > I'm not sure "accelerating it" is quite right. It's definitely made it   
   > more visible and given a platform for like-minded idiots (once isolated   
   > in their own bedrooms) to think they are "right" because they are the   
   > most noisy.   
   >   
   > I remember even in the early '90s - before the Internet had the web and   
   > the public easy access - there were plenty of trolls. I think what's   
   > changed is that they were easier to ignore.   
      
   Yup, exactly this - when a newsgroup or web messageboard got over-run with   
   trolls then you could generally just avoid the threads where it was   
   kicking off, or simply unsubscribe/stop going to the forum and . Social   
   media has gone way past critical mass in terms of arseholes now, they're   
   too difficult to avoid even with the blocking tools on whatever platform   
   you're on, there's too many loudmouths, everybody is screaming at   
   everybody else, all the time. Only answer is to walk away from it.   
      
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