The internet (part 1)
The internet has had huge social repercussions. In fact, the social repercussions are arguably larger than the economic or informative ones. Think what a huge difference that email has made on the way we keep in touch. We now have cheap and instant access to sending and receiving information across the globe. We can now make sure that our family members know how life is going, or send pictures to our friends, or contemplate if the amount of spam advertising penis enlargements is proportionate to the number of men that need them (lets hope not), and lets not even mention all the death threats we have all received implied in the content of those chain letters ("...if you liked this joke please resend it to 45 friends if you don't, then tomorrow both you and your loved ones will be hit by a bus full of rabid monkeys, flogged by the ghosts of the spanish inquisition, raped and pillaged by giant amoebas and consumed in the fire of the almighty. thanx! have a gr8 day!").
But besides email we have instant messenger, which though it has useful 'potential' (to keep people connected over great distances), it seems to basically just keep college students from developing grammar or spelling skills. Rather than being used to connect those who are far away, it seems to just facilitate conversations between people in the same college dormitory, or, in some cases, in the same room.
Of course that leads me to blogs, which seem quite pointless most of the time as well. I tend to justify my own as my version of a newsletter, where friends can check up on what I have been up to. Of course, this very post does nothing to tell you how I am doing, except maybe that I am up late and am just as ridiculous as usual. But of course, if you are reading this, then you cannot really say much against me either. Lets all just be thankful that I do not have one of those "teen angst" kind of blogs, where I post poorly written poems, or lyrics to a Dashboard Confessional song. Its funny blogging has become so predictable that there are now blog entry generators (or here and here)that spit out a random post for when you cannot think of anything to say. I am a bit relieved that most of those would seem a bit out of place here, I would hope.
... more on this later
But besides email we have instant messenger, which though it has useful 'potential' (to keep people connected over great distances), it seems to basically just keep college students from developing grammar or spelling skills. Rather than being used to connect those who are far away, it seems to just facilitate conversations between people in the same college dormitory, or, in some cases, in the same room.
Of course that leads me to blogs, which seem quite pointless most of the time as well. I tend to justify my own as my version of a newsletter, where friends can check up on what I have been up to. Of course, this very post does nothing to tell you how I am doing, except maybe that I am up late and am just as ridiculous as usual. But of course, if you are reading this, then you cannot really say much against me either. Lets all just be thankful that I do not have one of those "teen angst" kind of blogs, where I post poorly written poems, or lyrics to a Dashboard Confessional song. Its funny blogging has become so predictable that there are now blog entry generators (or here and here)that spit out a random post for when you cannot think of anything to say. I am a bit relieved that most of those would seem a bit out of place here, I would hope.
Comments
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and how is it that you know penis enlargements are overrated?