Anyone who has been around the Internet for a few years has come across a troll.For a long time trolls were just a part of being online.. However they now seem to be stepping up there attack.
The First attack (yes it’s just that) well discuss deals with getting people to simply click on a link.
Depending on your conversation or topic links might be reasonably expected, only to find that when you click on it your greeted with an unsightly image. Link Obfuscation services are being used to get people to click on images of young people in situations considered illegal in most counties.
Simply Put… If you don’t know who posted the link in your chat room / forum / thread.. Be careful.
—-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll—
“An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.[2]“
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- ^ “Definition of: trolling”. PCMAG.COM. Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. 2009. http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=trolling&i=53181,00.asp#. Retrieved on 2009-03-24.
- ^ Indiana University: University Information Technology Services (2008-05-05). “What is a troll?”. Indiana University Knowledge Base. The Trustees of Indiana University. http://kb.iu.edu/data/afhc.html. Retrieved on 2009-03-24.
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