August 28, 2010
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Hate on Xanga
I have asked before if people thought they could fall in love with someone they only met on the internet.
I kind of wanted to go the opposite direction. Hate is such a powerful word and emotion.
Could you hate someone that you only met on the Internet?
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Yes.
sure
Yes. I have to be honest, there are people here whom I hate. But when people go out of their way to attack you for no reason, again and again and again and then lie about you and talk about you behind your back. I am a real person and they are real people. It may not be right, but I hate them.
I don’t think I could hate the person themself, but I could hate the things they say (LoBorn is a prime example of this).
Well. I’ll hate them WHILE I talk to them. But honestly, once I get off the computer I barely even remember they exist.
Yes. But you have to be a really outrageous troll or really hateful toward like everyone for me to hate you. I don’t hate easily, even if I use the word. I will dislike you very strongly, but it’s not quite my standard on hate for most people. Me hating someone in real life or on here is rare.
Oh, hello.
Yeah, I think so.
Not hate. I have definitely been highly annoyed.
I won’t know until I actually end up hating someone I only met on the internet. But I have strongly disliked people… >_>
hell yes! easy!
I think hate is a very powerful word, I don’t hate people in RL who have f-ed me over.I can’t imagine hating anyone over the internet, who I have never met.???
I don’t believe I could hate someone on the nets, they might disgust or annoy me, but that’s probably about it.
i save my hate for people i actually know in real life
yep.
hating a virtual stranger takes up too much time i’d rather spend dealing with things that matter. whomever i’d hate is gone as soon as my browser closes. i think the angst should end then, too.
absolutely. I once chatted with this guy, he was smart and intriguing, but the biggest most pompous ass, not to mention liar and fraud and … and…
uh, yes. My answer is Yes!
i dont hate. But i believe you can strongly dislike someone based soley on what they say online. If anything, you get to see how someone really thinks when you read what they write when they feel no one in their RL will know about it. People are more open as far as showing how ignorant and hately they can be.
I believe I have only greatly disliked. then I delete them from my life and move on. Why waste time on people you’re mad at?
I’m usually hated when I do things under the veil of anonymity, but with good reason.
And yes, I can and do. Mostly people who love to spew their ignorance and stupidity all over the internet. My forehead is red as a tomato from all the times I have slammed my head against my desk.
No, I can’t even hate someone I know IRL
Yes.
@lil_mama2499 - agreed
I can’t hate anyone..it’s not in me to hate..damn, even though I should.
Don’t hate love. I can’t hate someone in real life so I can’t hate on the Internet.
I want to answer this but I hate to…
Most likely, yes.
i can not hate , it’s just not worth it. but i sure can get pissed off at someone who i find extremely annoying !
No I couldn’t. Why would I hate someone? Because they disagree with me? or aren’t nice to me? People are so much more than their opinions or my opinion of them. I have an affection for the people I talk with here on Xanga. Yes, even the ones I snarkfest with.
maybe especially those people.
I usually end a conversation/interaction before it gets to hate. I’m not gonna sit and let someone do whatever it is they are doing to bother me, ESPECIALLY on the internet. So easy to ignore someone over the internet….more people should do it.
No. But then, I kinda can’t hate people. I may super dislike them, but I get over it.
I have before. Worst relationship/friendship ever.
I love you all, except you PONYTAAAAAA>>…..
No. I think it would be harder to hate somebody you only know on the internet than to fall in love.
Not really because it’s not like they can directly affect your life. They don’t know you other than some words you write, so half the things they saw will be invalid anyway. Plus, you don’t know them so you don’t know why they have such an issue with what you wrote. It’s like if someone at the mall aggressively bumped into you. You might be like, “Hey, what the fuck!?” and get angry, but then you would go off on your way and forget about them. Better than your brother coming up and punching you in the face. It’s easier to shut a screen off than shut a person out of your life. I don’t tend to think about people from the internet unless I’m on the internet itself. Hate is usually reserved for people you actually know and know well, who have done something to wrong you and impact your life negatively.
I guess what I’ve just said is that it’s possible to “hate” someone on the internet – you just have to put a lot of effort into it. Which is dumb.
Nope. There are people I would stay away from because I can agree to disagree just fine but hate is such a strong word! I don’t even hate my ex-husband…but I’m also not going to out of my way to keep in touch or stay friendly.
How could you really hate someone that you really don’t know?
@TheBigShowAtUD - This guy took my sentence or two right out of my mouth.
@Megan@revelife - Talk about you behind your back? You mean behind your screen?
No. I don’t see the point in hating people that I don’t even know. I hate things that people do and say, but I don’t hate the people. I just really don’t like them very much.
Absolutely.
I hate you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES……..Then again I have no problem with hate. I can hate pretty easily.
Well depends what they did. If they are using my identity, bullying or anything like that then yes… they are being really hateful and tryign to destroy my life
oh, good point. I’m not sure now. I don’t think so. I think we can feel hate towards someone but it’s more like we’re hating everything they represent rather than who they really are.
no hate anyone ever.
They would have to do something aimed directly at me that would just be extremely hurtful for that to happen. Considering I have all my online sites pretty highly privitized (yep, I probably made that word up) I doubt I’m going to run into that really.
I do STRONGLY dislike types/groups of people online though & I can’t stand reading the stuff they type. So when it gets too frustrating, I change the page on the screen & forget about them.
I tend to hate things like oppression and lies. People are usually not beyond redemption, but if they are involved in things I hate, I have to say so.
it can be easy to hate. people say it like it’s nothing. “aw, i hate getting up in the morning.”
emotions is somewhat interesting. i don’t recall ever coming across hating anyone online, though i have had strong dislike. and like one comment said, i would get turned off by them and then forget they even exist.
Could you hate someone that you only met on the Internet?
I hate you for asking this question.
Be annoyed, yes, but I would just ignore them far before it came to the point of hatred.
dislike yes, hate no.
I’ll generalize my hate: I hate trolls.
maybe
unfortunately it is scary how easy that can be. =/
I couldnt hate anyone. I cant hate anyone.
no, if I dislike someone on the net I just delete them, block them for good..Hate is such a strong adjective….I can’t even hate those who have hurt me, offended me, in real life, so how can one hate a virtual stranger, because that is what we are….I may dislike their opinions, I have been on xanga since 2004, I CAN HONESTLY SAY that this has never occured, for a while I was on NETLOG, there I deleted many, then I unsubcribed, xanga is another kettle of fish! I have made many friends here…
RITA
There are a few that I dislike. “Hate” is a dirty word in my personal dictionary.
No.
Hate in any venue gives someone else power over you. It ruins your health and all your life. If I was going to hate someone/something it sure wouldn’t be wasted on someone who had a different opinion from mine or who I met on line.
Oh, yes.
Hate is a pretty strong word…I don’t know that I could HATE anyone no matter where I met them, (Although I must admit that I do HATE what some people do, for instance Fred Phelps and his band of crazy family members who live here in Topeka!!!) I think that the internet affords people a certain sense of being able to just say and do whatever they want to, because they are “hidden” behind the computer screen. I try not to over react to anything that is said on here…why fan the flames any higher than they already are?
Hmm… cyber-hate… is it unreal like cyber-love and cyber-dating? It feels real. I’ve had a couple folks hate me here.
I could, but what’s the point? Some people get on my nerves, but I don’t wish them ill.
Yeah. There are evil people online just as there are in the real world.
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Yes, I think you can hate someone you only know online.
I won’t bother hating people on Xanga. I simply avoid them.
@chicken1672@datingish - completely agree.
meh.
Yes. If you can love someone via the internet, you can definitely hate them. Hate is an easier emotion to have.
Hate is a really strong emotion. I don’t really hate anybody in real life, though I dislike many. I don’t think I could hate on the internet either.
Definitely.
Hate is a strong word…no I don’t hate anyone not even my mean ex husband…I have found people I really don’t like on the Internet but I still try to be nice…
I try not to hate anyone. But I have to admit that there are a handful whose judgmentalism and thickheadedness occasionally tries my patience.
Absolutely, its all about what’s said and in the tone the reader takes the written word.
Hate is limitless when consequences are no where to be found.
Whoever hates virtual people must not have ever had to deal with any real issues in their own life.
I don’t think I could hate them, I might find their words disgusting though.
I’m sure someone could get under my skin but I don’t think it’d reach the point of hatred.
I have felt some amazingly strong disdain from some atheists on xanga, who have attacked me when I was just posting on a friend’s page.
Hate To Admit Yeah…
Dislike yes. Strongly dislike.. yes. I think that Hate is such a strong emotion that it can only be felt towards those that you have felt some other great emotion towards. Great anger and hatred is usually reserved for those that you know. Having said that I dislike some people on here a LOT.
Kat
fuck that..who has time to hate someone..waste of time…especially if the person is online..WaTTT????bigger waste of time…
yea… some people kind of just do things that make people dislike them….
What if I just hate everyone by default?
No, but I don’t think I could love someone either
I guess if I did, then I would o.o
Hate? I don’t know the meaning of the word.
@DickDoktorII - I hate hate
Hate is an extremely strong word. Although I do intend to make a fortune when I invent a way to punch someone in the face over the internet.
I’ve never been good at that whole hating thing.
Hate’s a strong word. I think I may dislike someone’s views, but I can’t really say I’d hate them, since I only know what they let me see on Xanga.
i don’t think i’d let it get to hate. There’s a block/ban button for that.
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we are all complex creatures made up of many parts. Just as you could only love certain parts of someone over the Internet, so you could only hate certain parts of someone over the Internet. We must get away from a paradigm of all or nothing if we are to survive as a society.
I’d say so.
It’s possible. Well…if they actually DID something to me in real life or electronically that truly effects my life in a HUGE way. Like, I’m not fond of the person who screwed with my dad’s credit. He/she stole his ID for a full 5 months and charged a lot of stuff. Clothes, games, food, etc…and made his life a living hell as he canceled cards left and right and had to prove himself to the brink of madness. He’s paranoid about online purchase because of it. So…I kinda hate that person because we never found out who they were, and it cost a small bit of change on daddy’s part to get his life back.
Now if you mean hating people who just say dumb, reckless things, then no. Quite honestly they can kiss my big ol’ butt. If all they’ve got are “witty” remarks to find ways to belittle my person, then they aren’t much to worry about in the first place. They’re words on a screen. And unless I really know them, I’ll more than likely write it off as time goes by. It’s silly to hate strangers. So basically, someone really REALLY has to tear into me for me to hate them….
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nah. they’re all a joke.
you know, I HAD to rec this since John and I met here on Xanga. Agnophilo drives me crazy, but “hate” is waaaay too strong
Hate is pretty strong. Hating someone really takes a lot of time and energy.
No.
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if you can love then I don’t doubt you can hate
well… if you could easily hate someone on the internet, wouldnt you be able to easily love someone just as much, I’m sure we’ve all come across that crazy racist with a lack of vocabulary. I think it would be just as easy to come across someone just the opposite.
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IN MY OPINION, I don’t think I could love or hate the person behind posts I have read on the internet, if that is all I know of them. I can love or hate the words that I’ve read, but that may be a totally false representation of the person behind the screen. Without benefit of tone, facial expression, life circumstances, etc., typed text on a computer screen is lacking serious context. I try to reserve personal judgment about the person, for after I’ve actually met the person & had a chance to get to know them.
Well..I have to say I don’t think I have ever actually hated someone I met on the internet.
A couple of people have made it pretty high on my list from being so annoying.
I have never hated them though. I have this curse of being too kind to people.
Yes.
oh hell yeah.