User blog:Asteria52/On Vandalism

Online Vandalism is something that I don't quite understand. In the real world people do vandalism for various reasons: there's the rush, trying to make a social statement, and some others that I can't think of at the moment. Not that that makes it right, but there is a reason. Online Vandalism however is, in my opinion, cowardly and pointless. There is very little chance of reprecussions for the person and it's somewhat hard to trace. I just don't see the point of going on random websites and writing in swear words. The only thing I could think of as a reason for this is that the person is trying to lessen the shock value of certain words, making them more mainstream, but I doubt this is the case for most vandals. It's a pointless exercise, as they ought to know that someone is just going to change it back. Maybe it's to see how long it will take someone to fix it? Still whenever I think about the people that do that I imagine some kid sitting at their computer giggling.