What I Consider Trolling

As far as I’m concerned, trolling is too vague of a term. The word covers a wide area as to what is actually considered trolling. I’ve spent a lot of time on the internet, around 8 years, and during that time I’ve seen many kinds of what would be called trolling. I think what most people are confused about when it comes to trolling, is that the people that troll are doing this to hurt people for no gain. The majority of cases I’ve seen all involve the troll using their words in a more playful manner than hurting. They do so to annoy the person, not to bring any sort of pain to them. It’s mostly just for the satisfaction of getting someone to notice them and play around with them a little bit. That’s closer to what my definition of trolling would be. Of course, there are the types of people that go around and intentionally say these hurtful comments just for the sake of bringing pain to others. Those people fall loosely under the term of the troll, but a proper term would be a flamer. These flamers are there to get an opinion across or tell someone they don’t care for their opinion. This happened to an adult actress just recently, as she posted something that her fans considered to be homophobic, leading to a storm of hateful comments. These comments ultimately led her to ending her own life. It’s the word of people that are out there to intentionally hurt us that we need to watch.