How to Make Friends and Influence People [Tuesday, April 15, 2014]

[sith_happened]

Anakin was typing as angrily as someone texting with two thumbs onto a comlink could when the class arrived. People were being Wrong on the Internet about The Amazing Race, Anakin's favorite show, and that couldn't be allowed to stand...and Rory had taken a hard line years ago about giving people migraines by thinking very hard at them. Typing in all caps was all he had left.

"Sometimes people are stupid and wrong," Anakin began, finally looking up, "and no amount of sweet talking will fix that. Today you have three scenarios to work through: one online, one using a telephone, and one in person. Think of this as prep for your final exam: break some truth to these people."

He went back to texting. Angrily.

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Re: People Are Being Wrong: Internet Edition

[sith_happened]

"Problems?" Anakin asked.

Sometimes he still forgot that not everyone had spaceships and internet access.

Re: People Are Being Wrong: Internet Edition

[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

But Elsa just had to be taught how to use a radio the other week!

"I'm afraid I have no idea what in the world I'm looking at," she confessed, sheepishly. "I mean, I know this is a computer, and... there's something called the 'internet,' but that's about the full extent of it all..."

What did she care about teams and threads and why would anybody want to clear a cookie?

"I don't think these people would even know a troll to see one."

Re: People Are Being Wrong: Internet Edition

[sith_happened]

"Different sort of troll," Anakin explained. "On the computer, a troll is a person who says stupid things on purpose to make people's days worse."

Re: People Are Being Wrong: Internet Edition

[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

"Ah," Elsa replied, wrinkling her nose a little. "I'm not certain how I feel about them using the good name of trolls that way."

She still wasn't convinced that the things that had been attacking people a few weeks back were really trolls.

Re: People Are Being Wrong: Internet Edition

[sith_happened]

"...good name of trolls?" Anakin repeated. "I must not have met the right sort."

Re: People Are Being Wrong: Internet Edition

[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

"You must not have," Elsa replied, blinking up at him.

And now she was confused about so much more than the internet.

"... What sort of trolls have you met?"