People, who walk along the streets, use transport, sit in the cafés, get together on birthdays and baptisms are quite different from those who write statuses and comments in social networks and websites. The aggression and dissatisfaction with life in the latter is on a much higher level. For example, if you write “it was a wonderful sunny day this Sunday”, most likely they will comment, “How come it was sunny? What about Lfik, Sashik, Nemets, the offshore Tiko and Bentley Samo? How can the day be sunny under their ruling?” (I am bringing the political manifestation as a brighter example, the aggression areas might vary). In real life, people, of course, also, as a rule, are dissatisfied and do not have any sympathy for the above-mentioned “personalities”, but are not focused on these problems, they are not talking about them from morning until night. People live with their daily life, work, family, and friends. There are members or supporters of different parties among them, sometimes extremely opposition. But, even the extreme opposition is not so much aggressive in real life as in the virtual space. We understand that a part of “virtual people”, perhaps, half of them, does not live in Armenia, and those who have left during the Soviet or independent Armenia constitute the majority of them. In this case, aggression and concentration is explicable: first they are led by the information circulating in the virtual space, and secondly, they need information and opinions that confirm that they did all right by leaving their homeland. And as far as such facts are, indeed, many, we even overstate them by writing, “Aha~, you saw what happened, we were saying that you are not a state, your country is not a country, you are living in a nightmare, and we will not come back until “they” are gone.” Usually, this is said by those who have no intention to return, regardless of who is standing on the head of the power. But, of course, such an attitude “encourages” our countrymen. But, the “real” people are also more aggressive on the internet than in the ordinary life. Perhaps, the general psychological mechanism operated here, when you are sitting at the computer, you are more secure than when you are looking at people’s eyes. First, you can be introduced with a pseudonym, secondly, even if are introduced with your name, anyway, there is little likelihood that he whom you, for example, have offended in the virtual space, will demand a settlement of an account from you. Under general aggressive atmosphere, even those who have no intention of offending anyone, under the influence of the environment, they are beginning to choose more “edgy”, more “lashing” wordings. There are two ‘prescriptions’: 1/Use “ecologically pure” technologies in virtual contacts (due to lack of the space I will write more about the ecology of human contacts in details later). 2/Contact more with people of real flesh and blood.
Aram Abrahamyan
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