Digital Disinhibition Quotes

People feel emboldened to say things on the Internet they wouldn't in person.

I honestly believe that people sit behind their computers and just get really brave.

I read something once that when you're online, your inhibitions are lowered to the state where you've had three drinks. Once you basically know that the entire internet is slightly drunk, it all makes a lot more sense, and you deport yourself accordingly.

This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel free to do and say whatever they want with no vetting, with no editing, with nothing.

Twitter is now an anger video game for many users. It is the only platform on which people feel free to say things they'd never say to someone's face.

The power of the Web is obvious and undeniable. We diminish it at our peril. But what if the most potent social effect to spread outward from the Internet turns out to be disinhibition, the breaking down of personal restraints and the endless elevation of oneself? It may be already.

Just because someone can sit behind a computer screen and have a different name and hide themselves, they feel like they can do anything to anyone.

If someone stops me in the street, they might not want to say something to my face - maybe something about 'Emmerdale' or something personal towards me, good or bad. But on Twitter they are hiding behind their keyboard.

You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.