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.
And whenever I log in, I am immersed in their lives, what they do, where they go, what they like and even what they ate for lunch, or even casual exclamations like "Hahaha" whatever it is they are laughing at, I am not sure, because they did not mention why.
People discuss things like religion and science, and a lot of people think they're all experts. People agree and a lot of people try to be polite. Sometimes, I wish I could be spared from knowing the things that they imply they do in bed.
We learn about diversity and we have to deal with it, and I think that is the key to social networking, keeping quiet. And I hope people learn about that, too. Not only that, people don't read much text, what they want are graphics, lots of graphics, and I see pictures of them almost naked, and not all of them are flattering to see.
There's just so many pictures. I cannot handle a lot of those.
And when I said that back then that it is the value of your opinion that mattered, now it is what the majority think is correct and true. Not everything in life should be viewed as a democracy. You now win an argument based on your popularity and the legions of followers you have and like-minded people reading a post. To keep going is self-defeating.
I stopped trying to gain followers long ago.
Just because you saw a few episodes of Law & Order on TV makes you a legal expert, the same way that reading wikipedia makes you know Darwinism.
I don't know what the point of writing this is nor how to end it, I just feel disoriented when writing about what is going on in the Internet. In a way, I am doing what they are doing. So I'll leave it here and just say, leave a comment, which I doubt anyone would do since no one reads this blog, and I have no plan to share this to my so-called "Friends".
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.
And whenever I log in, I am immersed in their lives, what they do, where they go, what they like and even what they ate for lunch, or even casual exclamations like "Hahaha" whatever it is they are laughing at, I am not sure, because they did not mention why.
People discuss things like religion and science, and a lot of people think they're all experts. People agree and a lot of people try to be polite. Sometimes, I wish I could be spared from knowing the things that they imply they do in bed.
We learn about diversity and we have to deal with it, and I think that is the key to social networking, keeping quiet. And I hope people learn about that, too. Not only that, people don't read much text, what they want are graphics, lots of graphics, and I see pictures of them almost naked, and not all of them are flattering to see.
There's just so many pictures. I cannot handle a lot of those.
And when I said that back then that it is the value of your opinion that mattered, now it is what the majority think is correct and true. Not everything in life should be viewed as a democracy. You now win an argument based on your popularity and the legions of followers you have and like-minded people reading a post. To keep going is self-defeating.
I stopped trying to gain followers long ago.
Just because you saw a few episodes of Law & Order on TV makes you a legal expert, the same way that reading wikipedia makes you know Darwinism.
I don't know what the point of writing this is nor how to end it, I just feel disoriented when writing about what is going on in the Internet. In a way, I am doing what they are doing. So I'll leave it here and just say, leave a comment, which I doubt anyone would do since no one reads this blog, and I have no plan to share this to my so-called "Friends".
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