Sunday, January 14, 2007

Verbal Arrows Can Hurt, Too

Posts of Internet message boards on various local medias turn out, from time to time, to be outbursts of evil intent. Gossips are up for grabs and transmitted like wild fires. Targets of hatred and curse, whenever they are erected by somebody masked and anonymous, are barraged and laid waste.


Ripostes to online news articles are getting hysterical these days. Hysterical on a massive scale. The so-called portal medias tend to smirk at all these proceedings. All that they have to do is build a billboard of popular interest and make rooms for comments. Then ethereal cyber armies land on, log in and make an onslaught to the target just like hyenas flock to the carcass.


The targets, which have usually been inured to online electronic attacks, sometimes complain of wounds and appeal to justice. Yes, just like knives and arrows hurt, verbal arrows and stones can hurt, too. Intensity of the pain might be stronger and longer.

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