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[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 319 points 1 year ago (192 children)

As it turns out, the majority of folks are just people trying to get by, and if you're nice enough to them, they'll be nice enough to you.

The problem with most terminally online people is that their social lives ended when they left school, which is when the population of arseholes is at its highest. Everybody is trying to impress everybody else, even at the cost of others.

But a lot of those same people tend to chill off as they mature into adults and become less self-centred. There are still absolutely arsehole adults, but nowhere near as many as the terminally online expect there to be.

[–] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 39 points 1 year ago (30 children)

I've observed this after I got into a college!

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