Originally Posted by JHM2K

It's a disturbing trend in my age group (and younger). People talk to each other as if they have little value for the other person (because, well, they usually don't). At some point in life you'll stop to realize you don't have any old (long-time) friends.

Many of these people are socially-awkward and lack proper communicative abilities. In person, they lack the ***** required to say the same things they can so easily type in anonymity. It's a deferred aggression from frustration with their own life situation, more often than not.