Today is one month since I joined Soulcast. I was going to post an update on how I am doing with my goal plan, but have decided instead to write my impressions of Soulcast since I began blogging. The update will wait till a later post.
I came to SoulCast because when I first got here, I looked around and saw people being honest with each other, but also being supportive. I wanted that support and honesty.
What I wasn't banking on is the absolute rudeness which is rampant on this site amongst people.
I understand the internet is a wonderful hiding place for the whole world. You can reveal who you are or you can keep your identity a secret. As a result, when you can be annonymous, people take advantage of this annonymity.
What makes people think it's okay to be rude to one another? What makes people think it is okay to toy with other's feelings and emotions by pretending to be something they are not? And what makes people think it is okay to do things online that they would NEVER do in Real Life?
Much like every religion in the world, mine says: "And harm ye none, do what ye will." Basically the Golden Rule - or treat others as you would like to be treated. I could never treat people online or in RL the way some are treated on this site, nor do I believe that the people who treat others in a horrible way online actually do so in RL either. Just because of the annonymity of the Internet people think this is acceptable. I am here to tell you that it is not!
Call me naive (which is the furthest from the truth) but I really want to believe in the goodness of human beings. I still want to trust. And while I still want honesty, I don't think honesty has to be cloaked with vile, hatred and putrescence. Honesty doesn't have to be hurtful.
Remember what your mother/father said when you were growing up: "If you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all."
Well, I would like to paraphrase that: "If you cannot be honest without being hurtful, vitriolic and/or rude, then don't comment on someone's post."
I have really great opinions about a lot of the SoulCasters (and I am not going to name names but I am appreciative of the support and honesty I have been given by them) - I really think that they are here for the reasons I came - to have an outlet to say things in public - some of these things are silly, some are profound, while others downright heartwrenching - but every one in the world needs an outlet.
That's why I came here.
I am not interested in being attacked for this post - but I will understand it if some of the more immature elements (and that has nothing to do with age) decide that I should become the next one to be attacked.
