Internet Threats...

It is really funny how people get worked up over things, especially things that they cannot do anything to change.

This week I posted a clip on Facebook that showed a portion of a pillow fight at an event that I attended, and somehow my opponent (or should that be victim?) saw it, and threatened to have someone beat me up if I did not take it down.

The first mistake in this whole thing is to threaten me. I don't do threats... And nor do I respond well to them. The second mistake was to think that I really was going to take these threats seriously... It is not like this person knows where I live. And just supposing that they did, would I still care?

People get so worked up over things that happen on the internet. An insult on the web from some faceless, probably socially deficient stranger causes people to fly into uncontrollable fits of rage, and leads some to make empty threats such as the one made against me. Do they not understand that all it does is cause the person who provoked them to simply stoke the fire more?

One of these days, perhaps people will learn that internet rage is even more pointless than road rage. At least when you honk you horn at who ever upsets you they can actually hear it.