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Another reason to love Linux
"...It seems to encourage bad behavior..."
Not certain 'encourage' is the correct term, but it certainly does provide an environment where people feel freer to say and 'do' things that they would normally never do in public. In my opinion it's more dangerous in that it tends to accelerate a breakdown in societal courtesy because it masquerades as a convenient form of communication.
It's also nothing really new. Usenet's been dealing with it for decades, as did Fido did before that. It's just that it's become so widely proliferated on a device that people now always have on them and can't seem to just put away that makes it worse.
Don't get the kudo phobia. It's just a shortcut for saying, "I agree," or "I like what you say," or "way to go," or many other things. Not everything about social media is wrong -- most of the ills of social media come from ill-mannered users. Ill-mannered people exist in real life too; they are rude and discorteous in public, without hiding their identities. Blaming the medium seems a bit shortsighted.
