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Both are forms of online trolling. However, they have a different definition.

Trolls

Trolls like upseting people on the Internet by posting inflammatory, insulting or off-topic messages in an online community. It can be on a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog. They get pleased out of provoking emotional responses. They can be mean and spiteful and don't care. They may go under different nicks and come back doing the same thing again.

Sockpuppets

It's a person that creates many different fake IDs. They come on forums telling false stories. For example, someone can post about their SO cheating on them but the person is really single; the story is fictitious. They do for the sole purpose of both getting reaction from others and lying behind their screens. They can be nice in their posts though, but just liars.

Which is worse to you? Would you say a sockpuppet is just as bad as a troll or less?

I can think of a couple times, which I didn't feel bad at all:

- Cheating on some exams during my school years. If I ever got caught then I was smarter next time. I only cheated once in a college and got away with it but this time I felt some guilt and never did it again.

- In 12th grade: took home someone's biology project, copied it (changed some of the wordings and pictures on my paper) and returned with both the student's and my paper. We both got either an A or B.

- 12th grade incident with French teacher: She found out I would either borrow from others or steal extra credit tickets to get more A's. As she was explaining how I hurt her, gave her a headache and even made her cry that day, I listened in silence and didn't care. All I was thinking of was ''Big deal, they're just worthless tickets... oh well at least I got away with it before''.

- Used to be a kleptomaniac during my mid teen years and would have kept doing it until I got caught eventually on cams. No arrest though but my parents had an embarassed look on their faces.

This is minor in comparing to someone that's really on the end of the spectrum but can genetics explain this?
My father used to be a school bully (he and his friends once left a boy with just underwears, hung his clothes on a tree and left laughing) and enjoyed it. Several years ago during a reunion, he was bragging about it and till this day doesn't feel bad about it.

My father's older sister was worse: When she was 15, she grabbed a knife and ripped her sister-in-law's couch for no reason other. She found it funny seeing her sister-in-law cry about it. Her parents and her half-sister knew about it but it was excused as typical teenage stage. As an adult, she once tried to make her daughter-in-law sick but her son switched plates; he ended up with a stomach ache and diarrhea for a couple days. She used to enjoy causing emotional distress towards others.