People on the internet!

[SnufkinsSpiritAnimal]

What's up with 'em?

I'm referring to how we have this large, global space, where most people are anonymised. I can't understand why people compete, boast, argue viciously or join in with 'echo chambers' (hive minds?).

For example, I was reading a food related post on the Guardian, nothing terribly interesting, and noticed that a large portion of the comments seemed to be competing over how healthy their diet was, how fresh their home grown produce was (with a small tear shed for the deserving poor), how one, even, won the day by butchering their own meat.
Well! It's funny, I know, but I wonder what people get out of it?
Isn't it just yelling into a void?
No one recalls them later, none of it matters.

It's everywhere that there is a comment section or community, except it often feels more akin to single souls shouting into the void. No one really cares 5 minutes later.
I get that we are a species which seeks communication and have a tendency to speak our minds, especially when there's no fear of letting it all out. But I wonder what some get out of telling a bunch of anonymous strangers how nice their aga is, how much they earn, or how everything we eat is going to kill us.

And of course, I am a human too (last time I checked), and have had my little moments. On the whole though I have never shared my bank balance, field of work or bald prejudices online, tbh, apart from this one!

So what do they get out of it, is what I want to know?

Want to add that I am also aware of the positives to being in such spaces, such as helping each other out, sharing ideas, etc.

And yet here you are 😂

ive covered that!

The thing is, we've all sat on a bus and had 'that' person come and sit next to us and start ranting.

We've all walked through the town centre and heard 'that' person ranting loudly about how we're all going to die, and something about 'Judgement day' etc.

Most of us have sat in a pub/cafe/coffee shop and heard the conspiracy theorists banging on about Covid being fake and big pharma are out to kill us.

Again, most of us will have had the tits bored off of us by 'that' parent banging on about how perfect little William and Jemima are at just about everything.

Now look at the internet as a meeting place where all these people come together, along with a massively diverse range of people with mental health issues, drug and alcohol addictions, neurodiversity and non neurodiversity, people of all ages, race and religion etc.

It's the biggest melting pot in the world so different people get different things out of it.