How online behavior turns people from Jekylls into Hydes

Something very strange can happen when we go online, and engage on social media: We become totally different people.  Correspondent David Pogue asked, "So, there is a Jekyll-and-Hyde thing happening?" "Oh, most definitely," said communications teacher Paul Viggiano. He can tell you from experience. "Well, it was Election Night, 2020, and I was on Facebook. And it got spicier, as the face got redder, and the rage was building. I think I may have actually said, 'You're an idiot.'" "To someone you know?" "Yes." "On the great scale, that was pretty mild!" said Pogue. "But for me, it wasn't. I mean, for me, it was pretty rough." "And you actually teach communications?" "That's the embarrassing part!" Viggiano laughed. "One of the classes I teach is interpersonal communications!" Consultant and psychologist Mary Aiken specializes in forensic cyber psychology, "which is the study of criminal, deviant, and abnormal behavior," she said. "And I'm kept really busy!" She cites four ways that onlin