Particularly Artiulate Day:
I am now ready to rant about the internet.
I don't know how long it will be, so I suggest you go to the bathroom now...ok...ready
So I have kind of noticed this before, but today it is really obvious. I cannot stand the fake ideals the internet creates for us. I am only nineteen, so I sorta grew up with the internet, but not really. I got the internet when I was about ten or eleven, but my sister grew up with the internet, and not even the same internet I kind of grew up with. I grew up with a few internet giants that I browsed, and that was it, not a whole lot of games, or flashy things, but enough to intrigue me. I grew up with regular e-mail and AOL instant messenger, and even live journal, and eventually myspace and facebook, but I didn't really have the concerns of kids today, I didn't have the same spamming and predators. They were certainly present, but the internet was more regulated. I was never afraid I'd be lured out by some wierdo guy, or something, I didn't have to combat hackers and pornography amidst my e-mail. I grew up in a much easier time where the internet wasn't as influential as it is now. It didn't make or break people and consume entire childhoods, it was a tool, and sometimes entertaining, but it wasn't a litle kid's toy like it is now. The internet was different, it has changed is I guess what I am saying, but all of this aside, I am driving home the point that despite all the other terrible, and somewhat wonderful things the internet does, it creates a completely false set of ideals and standards.
The internet is instant. You want you got it. All you have to do is click. Anyone can do it from anywhere, and this is great. It makes my life so easy, my christmas shopping, everything. I recently self-published myself in maybe a half hour. I have netflix, I can watch a movie anytime. I can buy a song from itunes and hear it in less than the length of that song. I can transmit a giant message to all of you in the time it takes me to write it. My point is the fact that everything is instantaneous is really great, but the downside is my problem.
I may be able to send a huge message in only the amount of time it takes to type it, but now with everything coming so quickly my patience is waning. So I have sent an urgent e-mail, or I have submitted a job application from my bed, without even dressing, but now I will sit here waiting for my response, and the chances of someone else being quite as impatient as I on the receiving side of this is so slim. How can I possibly expect for there to be someone sitting at their computer just waiting and waiting to get my resume and immediately send me a response. Not to mention if there is someone sitting on the other side then don't I become the bad guy? Here I am sitting around looking through my e-mails and thinking..hmm I'll answer that one tonight, and this one tomorrow. How can I be so heartless as to prolong these responses?
I guess my point is I think the internet needs to be less instantaneous...err well no I don't suppose this is a solution, I guess really I am just offering a gripe, a complaint, maybe I'm getting old and crotchety young. Why does my internet have to be to damn instantaneous when my people are anything but?
I don't know how long it will be, so I suggest you go to the bathroom now...ok...ready
So I have kind of noticed this before, but today it is really obvious. I cannot stand the fake ideals the internet creates for us. I am only nineteen, so I sorta grew up with the internet, but not really. I got the internet when I was about ten or eleven, but my sister grew up with the internet, and not even the same internet I kind of grew up with. I grew up with a few internet giants that I browsed, and that was it, not a whole lot of games, or flashy things, but enough to intrigue me. I grew up with regular e-mail and AOL instant messenger, and even live journal, and eventually myspace and facebook, but I didn't really have the concerns of kids today, I didn't have the same spamming and predators. They were certainly present, but the internet was more regulated. I was never afraid I'd be lured out by some wierdo guy, or something, I didn't have to combat hackers and pornography amidst my e-mail. I grew up in a much easier time where the internet wasn't as influential as it is now. It didn't make or break people and consume entire childhoods, it was a tool, and sometimes entertaining, but it wasn't a litle kid's toy like it is now. The internet was different, it has changed is I guess what I am saying, but all of this aside, I am driving home the point that despite all the other terrible, and somewhat wonderful things the internet does, it creates a completely false set of ideals and standards.
The internet is instant. You want you got it. All you have to do is click. Anyone can do it from anywhere, and this is great. It makes my life so easy, my christmas shopping, everything. I recently self-published myself in maybe a half hour. I have netflix, I can watch a movie anytime. I can buy a song from itunes and hear it in less than the length of that song. I can transmit a giant message to all of you in the time it takes me to write it. My point is the fact that everything is instantaneous is really great, but the downside is my problem.
I may be able to send a huge message in only the amount of time it takes to type it, but now with everything coming so quickly my patience is waning. So I have sent an urgent e-mail, or I have submitted a job application from my bed, without even dressing, but now I will sit here waiting for my response, and the chances of someone else being quite as impatient as I on the receiving side of this is so slim. How can I possibly expect for there to be someone sitting at their computer just waiting and waiting to get my resume and immediately send me a response. Not to mention if there is someone sitting on the other side then don't I become the bad guy? Here I am sitting around looking through my e-mails and thinking..hmm I'll answer that one tonight, and this one tomorrow. How can I be so heartless as to prolong these responses?
I guess my point is I think the internet needs to be less instantaneous...err well no I don't suppose this is a solution, I guess really I am just offering a gripe, a complaint, maybe I'm getting old and crotchety young. Why does my internet have to be to damn instantaneous when my people are anything but?
posted by The JackL at
7:11 PM
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