WEB BROWSERS TECHNOLOGY
ONLINE ETIQUETTE
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They stay anonymous
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Typing gives them time to consider what they say
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Most people have fewer friends online
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Social media cites encourage people to argue
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Detailed explanation-1: -This phenomenon is known as the online disinhibition effect. Essentially, being online lowers your inhibitions. This often results in people either behaving meaner, or opening up more online than they normally would in face to face conversations.
Detailed explanation-2: -Anonymity, Deindividuation, and Aggression According to Suler (2004), the anonymity experienced online may foster aggressive behavior in online communication because it makes people feel less inhibited in cyberspace than offline (online disinhibition effect).
Detailed explanation-3: -Online disinhibition effect is the lack of restraint one feels when communicating online in comparison to communicating in-person. People feel safer saying things online which they would not say in real life because they have the ability to remain completely anonymous and invisible behind the computer screen.
Detailed explanation-4: -Using a factorial design, the study examined the effects of three online situational factors-anonymity, invisibility, and lack of eye contact-on inducing self-disclosure and prosocial behaviors as expressions of benign online disinhibition.