I just read some of the stuff on MOBIRDS about the banding
controversy. I find it very interesting what the anonymity of the
internet does to various personality types. there are many people who
suffer from Paranoid Personality Disorder to a very mild degree who
seem to be freed by the internet to give voice to that part of their
hidden selves. We (the Carolina Bird club) have to deal with a young
man who is mild and self effacing in person but whose emails are full
of invective, sarcasm, and just plain bad stuff. In person he acts as
if the emails never existed. Strange. As a former avid and actual
student of Psychology, I find it all fascinating.
Sorry if this is boring to you all.
Mary Ann
Barnwell, SC
