I thought it was time to bite the bullet and make my own blog. This way, the random blahblahblah that I spew on a semi-regular basis may continue without trashing someone else's backyard.
ANYhoo, on that note, here are some reasons why I sometimes hate the internet's creation.
1.) Blogs just like this one. It's not that I don't think people should have the right to blog...it's because they have overtaken search engines...and it's very frustrating!!
E.G.
I will search, say... "how to knit a sweater." The first twenty thousand pages will be a bunch of blog entries that people have written on how to knit a sweater... HOWEVER! The blog entry will be several entries in.. and when you follow the SE's link, it takes you to the front page of the blog...which leads to mindless hours of futile searching... and then I found five dollars... which is a way of saying that I am going on a tangent that is no longer interesting in any way, shape or form.
2.) The internet breeds stupidity. I'm not referring to the obvious bastardization of the English language that is leet speak (which is no less blood curdling, however) or the inability to differentiate between "your" and "you're," "their," "there" and "they're." I'm talking about people that THINK they're intelligent because they've picked up on a few misunderstood/used but relatively "big words."
E.G.
Proverbial. The proverbial noob {sic} whent {sic} to fuck you're {sic} proverbial mother.
or
Inherently. Here's an actual example I found on youtube (and I imagine the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons saying it): "I strongly disagree with the idea that it's inherently cruel to keep an animal as a pet. The words "strongly" and "inherently" seem a bit extraneous here, wouldn't you say? And then I found five dollars.
3.) The internet makes it harder to enjoy life. Can you remember the last time you went to a fucking Blockbuster and rented a movie and everyone was REALLY excited about it?? Now you can just download it. Or find it on Megavideo or Hulu or something.
Or how about when you have one of those, "What was his NAME??" or "What was that SONG?" moments....and you had to sit there for hours and think about it until someone finally remembered?? Now you can just google it. It takes the joy out of all of those little things in life. Nothing is special because everything is so readily available. And then I found five dollars.
4.) Social networking websites, which virtually everyone belongs to, have made it impossible to for creepy people NOT to find a way to contact you and make life awkward and suck.
5.) Work applications. You can't make an impression with any of your potential employers because everything is done online. Leaves you at an unfair disadvantage.
I will end this here, not that anyone will read it, before I have to find a million dollars.
ANYhoo, on that note, here are some reasons why I sometimes hate the internet's creation.
1.) Blogs just like this one. It's not that I don't think people should have the right to blog...it's because they have overtaken search engines...and it's very frustrating!!
E.G.
I will search, say... "how to knit a sweater." The first twenty thousand pages will be a bunch of blog entries that people have written on how to knit a sweater... HOWEVER! The blog entry will be several entries in.. and when you follow the SE's link, it takes you to the front page of the blog...which leads to mindless hours of futile searching... and then I found five dollars... which is a way of saying that I am going on a tangent that is no longer interesting in any way, shape or form.
2.) The internet breeds stupidity. I'm not referring to the obvious bastardization of the English language that is leet speak (which is no less blood curdling, however) or the inability to differentiate between "your" and "you're," "their," "there" and "they're." I'm talking about people that THINK they're intelligent because they've picked up on a few misunderstood/used but relatively "big words."
E.G.
Proverbial. The proverbial noob {sic} whent {sic} to fuck you're {sic} proverbial mother.
or
Inherently. Here's an actual example I found on youtube (and I imagine the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons saying it): "I strongly disagree with the idea that it's inherently cruel to keep an animal as a pet. The words "strongly" and "inherently" seem a bit extraneous here, wouldn't you say? And then I found five dollars.
3.) The internet makes it harder to enjoy life. Can you remember the last time you went to a fucking Blockbuster and rented a movie and everyone was REALLY excited about it?? Now you can just download it. Or find it on Megavideo or Hulu or something.
Or how about when you have one of those, "What was his NAME??" or "What was that SONG?" moments....and you had to sit there for hours and think about it until someone finally remembered?? Now you can just google it. It takes the joy out of all of those little things in life. Nothing is special because everything is so readily available. And then I found five dollars.
4.) Social networking websites, which virtually everyone belongs to, have made it impossible to for creepy people NOT to find a way to contact you and make life awkward and suck.
5.) Work applications. You can't make an impression with any of your potential employers because everything is done online. Leaves you at an unfair disadvantage.
I will end this here, not that anyone will read it, before I have to find a million dollars.
