Under the Bridge

It's a bit embarrassing to admit this, having practically grown up on the internet, but until just now, I have remained in the dark as to what exactly an internet troll was. I had assumed that they were akin to a bot, but with slightly more malicious intent. Like an irritating automated friend request generator on MySpace, or automatic ad posts on blogs, and forums. But trolls, as it turns out, are humans knowingly baiting members of forums and communities with controversial, and insulting comments. They appear to be cousins to standard jerks, or a derivation of the common asshole, just with a more specific purpose and focus. But at least now I know what lurks under the bridges of the many byways of th internet. Macho assholes too meek to shake anything up in the real world, so they bait kids in chat rooms.