"Man up" is great advice, but it's from an era where socialized interaction happened mostly in person. In those times, the consequence of insults was almost always physical violence, sometimes to the death in a formally arranged way.
Perhaps somebody needs to invent that device that allows us to punch people over the internet.
Yes and that makes me think. What if we could un-anonimise the internet for things like these. I think the anonymity of the internet makes trolls, toxicity, bullying and such much easier. Where if it’s your actual name that’s next to it, it influences your real life as well. Recruiters will search for your name on the internet and if you come off as a toxic bully, it’ll have consequences
There is empirical evidence otherwise, e.g. toxicity on Facebook. On the contrary, it gets far more personal if people know each other too and petty infighting dominates.
Recruiters looking up your name on the internet is awful. It got better, but a few years ago they haunted you to your last refuges.
Some people have their real names attached to their profiles, but I assume most prefer it the other way around.
Yeah, that sounds like an excellent idea. I would also add punishments (social media bans to start with, perhaps fines and even prison time for extremely serious cases) for spreading obvious lies.
Perhaps somebody needs to invent that device that allows us to punch people over the internet.