What Your Mother Never Told You About Online Trolls

If you are going to use Social Media, especially as a content creator, you are inevitably going to have to deal with haters, trolls and detractors. In dealing with them, it is important that you engage them from a position of power and as one who is in control of the frame of the interactions between you and them.



These people can be annoying, frustrating and most of all angering. This is exactly what the troll wants. Trolls want to make you emotional so that you react to them, giving them control over you and your platform. Thus allowing them to take control of what you’ve built or use for their entertainment. If you quit, they win, and if you react to them, they win. When you understand this, you understand that all of their tools are meant to reach one of these two goals; which gives you the power to thwart them from the start. If you understand a person's intentions and desired outcomes, you can control all interactions between them.



I have dealt with all of these emotions when dealing with the online legions of people, who seem to lack direction and purpose in their lives; and used it to fuel my passions and goals. Had I not faced the online mob of haters and trolls, I would not have written this brief treatise about them. This is what makes people, like you and I, different. We create and build and do not hate and attempt to destroy.