These days, everyone has a say. It's perfectly normal, I have an opinion and I bet everyone else has, too. And I would feel sorry for the person who doesn't have any. However, these days, people's opinions are pretty much known to everyone, if they go online.
Ten years ago, the Internet was a place to say your opinion, so does now. But it was different back then. The Internet was used to do research for school and, for a lot more people, download porn. There are forums to discuss stuff like religion, politics, metaphysics and such. Although marginalized, it did not matter what background you came from, what mattered was the weight of what you say. At times I reveled at this and learned the hard way that making a statement without knowing much about it could lead to embarrassment (even if you are discussing them among people you have never met).
Thanks to the convenience of social networking, the Internet has become more democratized. I have hundreds of friends on Facebook, many of which are people I know but I couldn't really call friends. If I narrow it down, I have maybe 20 friends on FB.
Ten years ago, the Internet was a place to say your opinion, so does now. But it was different back then. The Internet was used to do research for school and, for a lot more people, download porn. There are forums to discuss stuff like religion, politics, metaphysics and such. Although marginalized, it did not matter what background you came from, what mattered was the weight of what you say. At times I reveled at this and learned the hard way that making a statement without knowing much about it could lead to embarrassment (even if you are discussing them among people you have never met).
Thanks to the convenience of social networking, the Internet has become more democratized. I have hundreds of friends on Facebook, many of which are people I know but I couldn't really call friends. If I narrow it down, I have maybe 20 friends on FB.
