Posted by baseball55 on March 14, 2016, at 19:25:00
In reply to Re: I do miss babble. » alexandra_k, posted by Tabitha on March 14, 2016, at 17:50:34
> Yeah, I miss the old days when it was non-commercial, and the people online were generally brighter than average. Seemingly kinder than average, too.
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Maybe babble was Kinder, but I remember being on a list-serve when the internet was pretty new and non-commercial and the constant flame-ups drove me crazy. Really nasty stuff and people (like Lou) who seemed to be there only to cause problems. I thin that's the nature of internet conversation groups. When you're not communicating face-to-face with people, things can get ugly easily. It's sort of like the way people behave in cars, where they see themselves interacting with other cars, not with other people. Like cars that drive up to the very end of a merge, then force their way in. The same people would never think of cutting in a line.
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