Online Disinhibition Effect

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FORCE: Machine CultureUNIVERSE: Rules of the InternetCLUSTER: Machine-Mediated Social Norms

The documented psychological tendency for people to say and do things online they'd never do face-to-face, driven by anonymity, invisibility, and the reduced sense of real consequences that mediated communication provides.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Classic online disinhibition effect, he'd never say any of that to someone's face."

LORE & ORIGIN

A term from academic psychology research on internet behavior, describing a phenomenon internet communities had already informally observed and joked about for years before it got a formal name.

FIRST SEEN

2004

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

Not established

CURRENT STATUS

Legacy / Decaying Slang

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Español es-ESefecto de desinhibición en línea →Français fr-FReffet de désinhibition en ligne →日本語 ja-JPオンライン脱抑制効果 →한국어 ko-KR온라인 탈억제 효과 →Português pt-BRefeito de desinibição online →中文 zh-CN网络去抑制效应 →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

↓ FADING

EDITORIAL ESTIMATE

CULTURE CATEGORY

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RELATED TERMS

Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory

MENTIONS OVER TIME

DOCUMENTED SINCE

2004

NOW

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TOP PLATFORMS

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