I'm sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Fittingly enough, I was in London for the day with some of those false personae, otherwise known as internet friends...
I agree with pretty much everything you say, although my experiences - and what I get from the internet - are somewhat different, which isn't surprising, considering that everyone brings his or her own personality and needs to the internet communities he or she participates in.
That attitude that the internet is dangerous is just the same as people who think there's a crime wave when in fact all that's going on is that a lot of crime is making headlines. Bad news and tragedies make headlines. '5 million people hang around online, having fun' does not.
There is just as much good in the internet as there is bad, just like there are as many good people as there are bad. It's a balance. And with something that is completely and utterly dependent on the people who contribute to it, it is nothing more than a reflection of the human race as a whole. And you cannot definitively say that the human race is all bad or all good. The same thing goes for the internet.
Well, you managed to say in a paragraph what took me a 1000-word rant to articulate, but yeah. This.
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I agree with pretty much everything you say, although my experiences - and what I get from the internet - are somewhat different, which isn't surprising, considering that everyone brings his or her own personality and needs to the internet communities he or she participates in.
That attitude that the internet is dangerous is just the same as people who think there's a crime wave when in fact all that's going on is that a lot of crime is making headlines. Bad news and tragedies make headlines. '5 million people hang around online, having fun' does not.
There is just as much good in the internet as there is bad, just like there are as many good people as there are bad. It's a balance. And with something that is completely and utterly dependent on the people who contribute to it, it is nothing more than a reflection of the human race as a whole. And you cannot definitively say that the human race is all bad or all good. The same thing goes for the internet.
Well, you managed to say in a paragraph what took me a 1000-word rant to articulate, but yeah. This.