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Originally Posted by sad_winslow
Memes, repetition, cool wars, video games for 18 hours a day, trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls, racism is funny, gay is an epithet, things that aren't gay are EPIC WINS and everything is FOR THE LULZ and put on your cool face and communicate everything with bad spelling in 140 character status updates or captioned pictures thrown around again and again and again...
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This is the type of thing that adolescents and teenagers do in real life, too. It's not the internet making them this way, the internet just makes it easier for you to be exposed to way too much of it. Not to say that adults are immune to this type of behavior, I have certainly participated in a meme or two in my day, but sometimes adults indulge in childish moments in real life too. The internet is just a reflection of who's on it. The trick as you enter your "get off my lawn!" stage here is to make sure you
don't start avoiding the internet, as you are tempted to do. Hunker down in one of the adult enclaves (here, for example,) and don't let the kids take any more ground.