The Internet Changed My Life.
I have friends like that__ery straightforward and responsible, good at what they do, good home life. But they get stressed, and they blow off steam by posting aggressive comments on the web. Their web personality is different from their real personality. They keep them separate. They just laugh and say it__ okay to write whatever you can__ say in the real world, no matter how critical or negative it is. That does seem to be one purpose of the Internet for a lot of people.__otaro nodded.__ut I think my friends are wrong. Their posts will never disappear. They think they__e just putting opinions out there. They don__ use real names. They say what they think. They assume no one pays attention for more than a few moments. That__ a big mistake.___ost of what goes on the net, stays on the net__omewhere.___hat__ not what I mean. No matter how carefully they choose their words, whatever they say, the words they use stay inside them. Everything is cumulative. Words don__ __isappear.___aybe they post a comment saying a certain actress should just die. They think they__e blown off steam by criticizing someone no one likes anyway. But those words___ hope she dies___tay inside the writer, along with the feeling that it__ acceptable to write things like that. All that negativity accumulates, and someday the weight of it will change the writer.__hat__ what words do. However they__e expressed, there__ no way people can separate their words from themselves. They can__ escape the influence of their own thoughts. They can divide their comments among different handles and successfully hide their identity, but they can__ hide from themselves. They know who they are. You can__ run from yourself.__om would say, __hat goes around, comes around.___o be careful, Kotaro. If the real world is stressing you out, deal with your stress in the real world, no matter how dumb you think it makes you look. Okay?
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I have friends like that__ery straightforward and responsible, good at what they do, good home life. But they get stressed, and they blow off steam by posting aggressive comments on the web. Their web personality is different from their real personality. They keep them separate. They just laugh and say it__ okay to write whatever you can__ say in the real world, no matter how critical or negative it is. That does seem to be one purpose of the Internet for a lot of people.__otaro nodded.__ut I think my friends are wrong. Their posts will never disappear. They think they__e just putting opinions out there. They don__ use real names. They say what they think. They assume no one pays attention for more than a few moments. That__ a big mistake.___ost of what goes on the net, stays on the net__omewhere.___hat__ not what I mean. No matter how carefully they choose their words, whatever they say, the words they use stay inside them. Everything is cumulative. Words don__ __isappear.___aybe they post a comment saying a certain actress should just die. They think they__e blown off steam by criticizing someone no one likes anyway. But those words___ hope she dies___tay inside the writer, along with the feeling that it__ acceptable to write things like that. All that negativity accumulates, and someday the weight of it will change the writer.__hat__ what words do. However they__e expressed, there__ no way people can separate their words from themselves. They can__ escape the influence of their own thoughts. They can divide their comments among different handles and successfully hide their identity, but they can__ hide from themselves. They know who they are. You can__ run from yourself.__om would say, __hat goes around, comes around.___o be careful, Kotaro. If the real world is stressing you out, deal with your stress in the real world, no matter how dumb you think it makes you look. Okay?
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