{"id":547,"date":"2015-06-05T01:33:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T01:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/khang-nguyen.com\/?p=547"},"modified":"2015-11-24T14:33:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T14:33:29","slug":"my-battle-with-a-twitter-troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/khang-nguyen.com\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"My Battle with a Twitter Troll"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up in the internet age therefore I know all about trolls and trash talking on the internet. An internet troll is someone who lurks around the internet behind their veil of “anonymity” and makes senseless arguments and comments about hot-button issues just to entice a response from others – basically your virtual bully except much, much, much more dumb. Well, I happened to attract one after I wrote my blog post about what it was like driving for Uber in PDX<\/a>. I’ve dealt with internet trolls through my gaming experiences but never on websites\/Twitter\/Facebook therefore I didn’t REALLY know that people went out of their way to make comments about others. From what I can gather, the troll was a cabbie who didn’t like Uber encroaching on their “time-tested” industry of taxi cab drivers. I don’t even know why I engaged in the pointless banter but it just goes to show you that the internet is full of idiots with opinions and you know what they say about opinions, “An opinion is like an asshole, everybody has one and it usually stinks.” The same guy also goes on to make comments on my blog but I didn’t publish them because I love freedom of speech as much as the next person but I see no point in publishing his pointless comments. Also, he’s a Ducks fan so that kinda explains a lot \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

It all started with me posting my blog on Twitter to garner traffic.
\n\"1Then the wild troll appeared.
\n\"2<\/a>I tried to take the high road and thank him for talking about my blog. He also posted earlier about coming to do my job for a few hours like what I was doing to his.
\n\"3A<\/a>nd then a 3rd player jumps in and starts talking about cab driving being time-tested and we take a trip back to the future.<\/p>\n

\"3<\/a>Next thing I know we’re talking about the generational battle against\u00a0Millennials. I stole a joke from Key and Peele<\/a> for my response.
\n\"4<\/a>Finally, he asking if I drive for Lyft as well and how long I’ve wanted to be a cabbie then brags about how much he makes. This was our final interaction for the day and ends my idiotic rhetoric with dumb internet trolls.
\n\"5P.S. He then proceeds to post comments on my blog that I chose not to publish. Just goes to show you what people will say when they’re hiding behind their computer screen. FYI, @travisk is the CEO of Uber.
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