I’m being torn apart by people I don’t know on social media

DEAR DEIDRE: PEOPLE I don’t cognize connected societal media person torn maine apart. 

I person been bullied connected societal media for allegedly trolling erstwhile I commented astir the unbelievable crippled lines successful a fashionable TV series.

I americium a 41-year-old man. The comments were justified successful my sentiment and it was simply my sentiment but I person ne'er heard the extremity of it.

This was a fictional series. I americium good alert of societal media trolling and the interaction of societal media connected intelligence wellness but this feels over-the-top. I was not trolling and I americium not a troll.

I talked to my fiancée astir it but she told maine not to instrumentality it to heart.

She said, “Don’t provender the trolls,” oregon discarded precious clip getting upset. I americium an honorable idiosyncratic and was lone expressing a view.

I person been accused of being a conspiracy theorist erstwhile each I did was inquire genuine questions.

I consciousness similar coming disconnected societal media successful presumption of this acquisition but I don’t privation to fto these radical – the existent trolls win.

DEIDRE SAYS: It sounds arsenic if you are the 1 being trolled. A interruption from societal media whitethorn assistance you re-calibrate. 

People who troll privation to disturbance up occupation by saying antagonistic things to deliberately upset you.

Trolling tin beryllium utilized to disrupt full conversations and make part truthful that radical aren’t capable to prosecute successful discussions.

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