Trolls Trolling! Trololo!!

If anyone has spent ANY time on some sort of social networking website or anything that deals with interacting with other people such as MMO's, then they have come into contact with a troll. These aren't your trolls from Norse mythology or the naked ones with purple hair, these are internet trolls. An internet troll is defined as:

"a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum,chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response"

                                                                             (Danny Devito as a troll)

These Trolls make A LOT of people very angry. For example, in the sandbox game, Minecraft, a troll is one who goes around destroying people's creations. They are bad guys in this sense. People find them very annoying and unnecessary; I however, think that they are needed. Although I believe in peace and harmony, there will ALWAYS be some sort of antagonist. They make things interesting. Imagine Lord of the Rings without Sauron: the Hobbits would just sit in the Shire smoking and prancing around. Sounds like a GREAT story, doesn't it? 


Lets take a real world example: Adolf Hitler. He spread fear around the entire world during the late 30's/early 40's through propaganda, brute force and other tactics. He wanted fear, and he got it. Yes, Hitler was a horrible person; however, his leading to war turned out to be a good thing. It brought much of the world together after the first world war. America came together as a country, and the world economy began to heal after the Great Depression. I'm not promoting Hitler in any way at all, I am only saying that the second world war, known as the Great War lead to the healing of a nation. 

Not all trolls were bad people. Look at Socrates. He was one of the first Greek philosophers. He went around asking people really tough questions in order to teach a point. His biggest thing was that the only thing you can really know is how much you don't know. He was later arrested and took his punishment proudly. This lead to more people asking questions and new ways of thinking. Imagine if Socrates hadn't trolled Greece. I'm sure someone would have come along eventually, but who knows how long it would have taken for a new troll to come along?




Yes, I'm expecting people for getting angry at me for this, because I AM trolling right now. I'll probably be called many different things, but it happens. I'll probably be told my facts are all wrong and that I know nothing of history, etc. etc. It happens. Please comment. I appreciate all of your opinions. 

                                   "You've gotta pay the troll toll, if you wanna get on that nerd's nerves!"