The Singapore Media Literacy has marked 10 February as the Safer Internet Day.

This day is aimed at getting people to be nicer to each other online. Safer Internet Day asks a few questions: "Can our internet be safe, conducive and welcoming?"

"Can the internet be a place where our conversations are civil and constructive; where people can disagree without being disagreeable; where words are uplifting and encouraging; where people can come together to make the world a better place?"

Check out the video clip that is trying to get the point across:

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It looks like the Government is serious about creating a friendlier environment online. Even Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong shared a post on this:

Are Singaporeans ready to be civil to each other online?

It is safe to assume that normal people do not wake up with a burning desire to tear people apart with words online. But normal people do wake up on the wrong side of the bed once in a while and may take their frustrations online.

Angry comments will always be part of the Internet, just as you would probably cuss out loud if you stubbed your toe against the table.

The Safer Internet Day may encourage people to be more civil and measured when they are angry online, but it should also be encouraging more people to call out good behaviour or talk about the happier things in life.

Humans love drama, trolls feed on drama

There is no better place for online drama than the Hardwarezone forums. Just today, there is a thread about a man finding out that his wife was cheating on him with another married man. He took to the forums to get crowdsource efforts to help locate the married man's wife to tell her about his infidelity.

The point is, as long as there is free speech, there will always be a supply of drama and trolls, in turn, will always be around to feed off drama.

It will be a utopian dream for people on the Internet to agree to disagree. Trolls also thrive on people calling them out for their trollish behaviour. They will disagree with you even if they do not feel strongly about the topic debated. They relish the attention and even the challenge of going the distance in dragging out an online argument.

But not all is lost

Trolls will always be there, but that does not mean counter-efforts should be abandoned.

Recently a 'anti-troll' Facebook page - Broll Face - just made its debut. The aim of the site is not to engage trolls to defeat them, but to encourage people to be nicer to each other.

While it's easy to gain attention doing things that irritate or inflame, an act of kindness will not go unnoticed.

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