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~rosie88

Oh my gods, me too. I was on Telegram, I was in a group there, I stayed there for a while, fucked if I know why, today I got into a heated argument with a few of the idiots and BAM sudden realization.....this group is toxic...I left the group and Telegram in general. Fucking shit! people are just utter assholes, for some it's think and speak just like them or be branded as a (add the derogatory name of your choice here)

To be honest, that episode left me resentful and I still feel like that at the moment.

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~starbreaker wrote (thread):

I don't blame you for feeling resentful. Your experience is why I regard social media, big forums like Reddit and Hacker News, and group chat platforms like Telegrams and Discord as "groupthink incubators".

If IRC had the same scale, I suspect it would suffer the same problems. People are tolerable in small groups. Once they become faceless crowds, they tend to put aside their humanity.