If my message if read by even one person, it was worth writing it

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This message is not addressed to anyone in particular, and not related to anything specific, it's just a simple reminder for people. This might seem like some school lecture or something, but it is quite important.

  
People on the Internet. Sometimes it can be difficult to equate some stranger on the Internet with an actual human being. Face to face connection is built into human minds. So when you're just on a screen, it's easy to forget the person on the other side is in fact, a real person. They have real emotions, they laugh, cry, love, hate, everything. Just as you. There are few reasons to be rude on the Internet. You never know what is happening with the person on the other side of that screen, and you never know what being rude can do. It takes the same amount of effort to be rude and to be kind. And I have never heard of anyone having their feelings hurt, anyone being distressed, or anything of the sort, due to someone else's kindness. It doesn't need to be people pleasing or anything, perhaps just a simple "How are you?" Or "Thank you" could help. In the world we live in, you can chose to be practically anything. So you should choose kindness.

  
Tldr: You never know what others are going through and there is no harm in being kind

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