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Re:Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with custome... by username223 on Friday February 16, 2018 @10:53AM (#16393168)
> Kids who grew up in an environment where anonymous interaction is the norm...

I generally agree that the kids should get off my lawn, but the G.I.F.T. meme was created in 2004, and Usenet was a rough neighborhood even back before most posters here were born:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/troll-faq/

Actually, the a.s.t trolls were probably more vicious and effective than today's variety. That's just how people are.

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Re:Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with custome... by sincerely on Friday February 16, 2018 @12:03PM (#16393749)
I think it may be relevant that more and more people are growing up with easy access to computers and pseudoanonymous social networks today, even if the trolls of yesteryear were crueler.
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