Internet Troll (Article One)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/13/internet-troll-jailed-mocking-teenagers?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038

Summary.
This article is from the Guardian newspaper 13/06/2011. It is about a 25 year old internet troll, Sean Duffy who was jailed for posting videos and messages taunting dead teenagers and their grieving families who were left behind.

One such 15 year old girl had died instantly when hit by a passenger train near her home, her brother of 17 made her a Facebook tribute page and the troller posted comments such as ''i fell asleep on the track lolz''. Five days after the young girls death he made a YouTube video called 'Tasha the Tankengine'. I can only imagine how horrible these malicious online communications were to her family, especially since the troller was a complete stranger to the victim.

On appearing against magistrates in court, they examined other cases of online trolling concerning Duffy. It was found that he had been involved in numerous cases of disturbing online behaviour involving young, recently deceased teenagers. Duffy was given a custodial sentence and a five year antisocial behaviour order prohibiting him from social networking sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and others.
The court said that 'the case served as an illustration of the harm and damage that malicious use of social networking sites could do.'

Duffy's lawyer told the court that he has Asperger's syndrome, he lived a ''miserable life'' and ultimately that his condition made him unaware of the effect he was having on the family and friends of the victims.

Depth

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I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.
                                                             ~ Ferdinand de Saussure

Physiological responses to emotion..

Anger - Heartrate increase, Rush of hormones 'Adrenaline' generates energy strong enough for vigorous action.

Fear - Blood goes to larges skeletal muscles eg. Legs , making it easier to flee. Face goes white as blood leaves. At the same time, the body freezes, if only for a moment, perhaps allowing time to guage whether hiding might be a better reaction. 'fight-or-flight'

Happiness - A brain centre inhibits negative feelins and fosters an increase of available energy. Quietening of those centres that generat worrisome thought.

Love - Tender feelings and sexual satisfaction entail 'parasympathetic' arousal - the opposite physiological state of 'fight-or-flight' shared by fear and anger. The parasympathetic pattern, (dubbed the 'relaxation response') is a set of reactions that generates a general state of calm and contentment.

Surprise - Lifting of the eyebrows allows the taking in of a larger visual sweep & permits more light to strike the retina. Offering more visual info about the unexpected event, making it easier to figure out what's going on and concoct the best plan of action.

Disgust - Around the world expression of disgust looks the same = Something is offensive in taste or smell, or metahorically so. Upper lip curled as nose wrinkles slightly, suggests an attempt to close the nostrils against a noxious odor or to spit out poisonous food.

Reference, 'Emotional Intelligence' by Daniel Goleman