I was browsing through some stuff and started reading a blog entry from this guy, David Pogue, who blogs for the NY Times. He starts off his post with this letter some 15-year-old wrote him, in which the indignant teenager criticizes another post of his. Anyway, the whole thing basically gets down to his point that a lot of people are not so civil on the internet. These are his theories why:

* "On the Internet, you’re anonymous. Since you don’t have to face the person you’re dumping on, you don’t see any reason to display courtesy.