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How To Not Be An Asshat On The Internet
With just a few steps, you too can be an ok human being!
It was a typical Monday morning, I awoke to the comforting hum of my next-door neighbor’s air conditioning unit. I picked the crusty gunk from my eyes, rolled over, and began the first step of the millennial’s morning ritual: checking my phone.
I opened my email and scanned through what I received that morning. News, jeans on sale, Twitter, Reddit, newsletters…
Then I saw it: a new comment on one of my articles. As I began reading, I felt my eyes get lost in the back of my head as I rolled them with the utmost annoyance.
Another comment from an asshat.
Asshat:
One who has their head up their ass. Thus wearing their ass as a hat.
The man, we’ll call him Barry, had clearly been following my articles for quite some time. He cited several facts about my life, two true and one falsely assumed. Barry asked, “WTF has this world come to?” That I, a 27-year-old with no formal training in dating advice, was, in fact, giving dating advice.
And you’re right, Barry, WTF has this world come to? That an article on Medium from a random girl in LA could get you that worked…
