It seems to be a function of this medium that people can hide behind a nickname and inflict the most damaging hurt on other people with impunity. Is this the mirror of their counterfeit souls that some are so disdainful of the feelings of others who are out there doing what they could only dream of?

" And for this cause to thee
I speak, unapprehensive of contempt,
The insinuated scoff of coward tongues,
And all that silent language which so oft
In conversation between man and man
Blots from the human countenance all trace
Of beauty and of love."
(William Wordsworth)