indeed - John Denver

For some it comes naturally and no effort is necessary. :) - Mattb4rd

because they need to feel noticed and important at any expense ... and are generally horrible human beings. - Morgan

http://xkcd.com/386/ Not precisely relevant. But still funny! - David Young

Because they have assholes beating on them in Real Life and they don't have a healthy outlet. - Lindsey is Fierce!

David, I love that one :) XKCD always makes me laugh. - Veronica

@David That's definitely a fav - Lindsey is Fierce!

+1 david - that is a classic! - Morgan

Because they don't have the balls to be assholes in person so they become typist a-holes online - Jeremy Campbell from twhirl

Half the time they don't even have the cojones to put their email address or contact info. I guess that's good, because it prevents me from replying ;) - Veronica

Relativity. - ·[▪_▪]·

As Mattb4rd said, it's natural and takes no special effort. That's what makes the problem so bad for the rest of us. Secondly, those jerks don't have anything better to do. - Morton Fox

Sad little people, don't feed them and they go away. - Mike Mackley

Just imagine if they took as much energy into doing something nice. *shakes head* - AJ Kohn

Because they are too cowardly to say crap to your face. - Josh Haley

I think it's Michael Wesch who talked about the fame of being abusive in his video on the anthropology of Youtube - Badger Gravling

I think it's because there is a level of anonymity that allows people to believe that they can be someone else online, take on another persona, and act in this way. - Shafiq Jetha from twhirl

I personally think Mattb4rd got it right - it comes naturally to some people. Just ignore em - jerks are jerks. - Royce Mathew

Speaking as a recovering asshole, I'll say that people do it for many different reasons. Sometimes its because a given personality with whom you interact has become a communicative pebble in the online shoe of your life, and you just want to blast 'em. Sometimes it's because you've discovered that you're actually very good at being an asshole, and receive lots of praise for it. And sometimes it's because you're the kind of person that just loves to inflict pain. - Roger Benningfield

Ahh yess. The age old question, this about sums it up: http://tinyurl.com/6mocnn - Percival

I prefer jerks on the internet, in real life they REALLY suck. Percival - priceless! - jcunwired

it's just too easy. jerks. - John LeMasney

Wouldn't you be a jerk too if you never, ever got laid? - Chantal

the internet is full of trolls. come on veronica don't you know this by now? - Joel Smith

If I click like does that mean I like jerks or agree with Veronica? :-) - gfurry

@gfurry It means that you think Veronica is a cutie. - Mattb4rd

Using the Block feature is your friend - Jeremiah Owyang

for the lulz? - Nick Mutton

The internet tries to make the world idiot free, but the world makes a better idiot. Simple as that.. aka Pete's theory on internet "a#$hole /jerk" evolution :)- - Peter Dawson

yea! fuck jerks. - Greg Bond from twhirl

Veronica, just ignore the jerks. Problem with the Internet is that jerks can hide behind their web browsers whereas in peron they can't. Use the power of the "ignore", "block" or whatever means to ignore them. - imabonehead

I'm glad to see everyone still hates Assholes, Veronica , you should post the message and the comments on your blog! . - Percival

moo ha ha ha ha... go ahead. try to hit me - NoahDavidSimon