Comments on: Negative People – Dealing with Online Negativity

By: Online Misery Is Optional | Geoff Livingston's Blog

Online Misery Is Optional | Geoff Livingston's Blog — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:01:17 +0000

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By: Dax

Dax — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:01:43 +0000

Really interesting article, and beyond on-line forums I find people can be very negative thru emails and text messages and I got up thinking does the electronic world bring out the negative like a nature/ nurture thing

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By: HHCD

HHCD — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:10:07 +0000

What a terrific Article this is.
For the past 12 months i’posted on 2 forums on a regular basis.99% of posters never stop moaning.I found it was getting to me! I’ve given up with the mishogs after i read this great hub.
Thanks

By: Aya Hajime

Aya Hajime — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:09:07 +0000

In reply to Tyjos. Thanks Tyjos.

"I've had more than my fair share of encounters with negative people,especially those who try to infect you with it."

Yeah, misery loves company. As you say, much better to just avoid the unhappy folk. HubPages is actually one of the better online communities that I have joined.

By: Tyjos

Tyjos — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:08:07 +0000

Excellent Article, I myself am on the “Break Period” after dealing with considerable negativity in online forums for the past couple years.
I’ve had more than my fair share of encounters with negative people,especially those who try to infect you with it.
Really hate those places where they give you public lashings just for how you are, where those who can get away with the real bad stuff get off free from any consequences. Those places and most of the net is avoided now since at least this time I’m recovering from overexposure too it now.
Been thinking so much better now since leaving those places, one place was so bad it churned my stomach to say the least but that was prob due to my negative mindset from encountering a place [Avoid large fandom sites,especially for ones that are full of the unhappy folk]
But a very interesting Article.

By: MarloByDesign

MarloByDesign — Wed, 11 May 2011 04:07:07 +0000

What nice Hub. I wrote a Hub on ‘Ending a relationship with a negative person’, but never thought of your comment “Catch yourself if you start to feel any negative emotions and remind yourself not to take it personally” – what great advice. Excellent Hub! I rated it ‘awesome’.

By: dawny22

dawny22 — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:06:07 +0000

Negative peoples opinions are poison, always try to be positive in your attitudes. search online for 100 ways to motivate yourself and share it with others.
Great blog
Kind regards
Dawn

By: Aya Hajime

Aya Hajime — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:05:07 +0000

In reply to Holly.

You bring up many good points. It is often very tempting to join the “cool people” club for many reasons. When I was in high school I joined out of fear. If I didn’t join, I would be the one that they ganged up on.

Like you, I finally got really sick of the nasty people running the club and left. I am so glad I did it. Nasty groups like that only bring everybody down including its own members. Once people decide not to participate, the nasty people lose all of their power and usually leave.

I don’t know if the nasty girl that ran things derived any satisfaction from it – if so, she must have had some serious personal issues.

This is a very interesting topic – and as you point out, it is a social situation that can happen at any age.

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:04:07 +0000

I use to belong to a social networking blog called Yahoo 360.It’s closed now but when I first started I developed online friendships with witty funny sarcastic people that were pretty much one of the drama crowds,at first it was fun and like a looser who was blocked and had no real healthy social life I sat at my P.C and spent hours interacting with them,flaming the uncool people and getting involved in the drama like a 40 something looser who was feeling elated because unlike hight school the cool group had accepted her,only in cyber space,over time other people who interacted and were fighting with other drama groups started flaming me and sometimes I’d respond.In the end it got so bad I had my compter hacked by another woman I had a argument with.
It goit so bad on Yahoo 360 I’m glad it was shut down,people were creating fake insulting pages of eachother ect…. hacking eachothers compters and turning on eachother. It was like cyber gangs or high school in space!
In the end I followed some of them over to facebook but came to grips with the fact they’re troble and my real information couldn’t be trusted with them.
It’s been a few years now bt I look back in embarrassment on how I got caught up in that at my age. I take responsibility for being involved in that. I learned alot and that I had no life at the time.LOL

By: Aya Hajime

Aya Hajime — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:01:07 +0000

In reply to Random Person. Thanks RP :) Glad you found it helpful.