"Troll" is an Understatement

A lot of the discussions we have in class are really good and important for everyone to hear, especially the era that we are in. With almost every one of us on the internet in some way every single day, everyone is susceptible to experiencing a troll of their own at some point. Even though I do agree with the severity of the topic, I still cannot agree with calling these kinds of people "trolls". At least for me, trolling does not have the same meaning in my personal vocabulary than it does in the discussions in class. Trolling, to me, means someone that does provoke arguments between people, but not big issues or straight up cyber bullying. My kind of trolls are more annoying than they are hostile. Hearing these kinds of stories with these "trolls" is giving them to much credit for who they really are. Those kinds of people do not deserve to even be called trolls, they are way worse than that. My advice to anyone that is dealing with the really bad "trolls" on the internet is to immediately block them out of your life and on whatever platform they are harassing you on. Having the strength to ignore and disregard what trolls say to you is a very hard, but incredibly useful skill to have, and I hope everyone reading this has such strength to do so.