CJ: “Trolls are not nice.”
Me: “That’s true, but they aren’t real.”
CJ: “Some trolls are real, they are on the computer and they start flame wars.”
CJ: “Trolls are not nice.”
Me: “That’s true, but they aren’t real.”
CJ: “Some trolls are real, they are on the computer and they start flame wars.”
*snap snap* (the appreciative kind)
Wow, he’s pretty young to comprehend something like that. My kids’ online interaction for the moment consists of watching amateur Lego movies on YouTube.
Oh, I very much doubt he comprehends it — he likes the BrainPop movies and watched one about “Internet etiquette.” OK, I just asked him whether he knew what a “flame war” is. He said “I forgot what it is. All I know about it is that it’s not good. Flame wars are really bad. Trolls are not nice.”
I wonder if he conflates Internet trolls with the kind that live under bridges? That’d certainly be an interesting (inner) world to live in…