This week in Crew we discussed how our ‘online’ selves may differ to our ‘real-life’ selves, and how sometimes we may say things online to people – or about people – which we would never dream of saying face-to-face.
The video above highlighted some of the awful comments people feel it’s OK to post behind the anonymity of the keyboard, without realising the impact those words can have.
Some of us even admitted to not always being mindful of our online comments, which led onto a discussion about some of the derogatory terms people think are OK to use in their everyday conversations, without fully understanding their meaning.
‘Language is our culture’ at XPE, and I’m hoping my Crew will now reflect on how powerful our language choices can be. We all pledged to make sure that we use our words to be kind, rather than cruel.