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| user: | hibee72 | | created: | June 19, 2018 | | karma: | 4 | | about: | Sad to tell, lads, but basically we've been all fucked up.
As a friend of mine's song tells, they simply "sold us the view from the hill".
I was born in 1972 and probably I've witnessed the early steps of the Internet since it came in the country where I live (Italy), which was never too keen at up-to-date techs.
There was a very different kind of people who used to inhabit the cyberspace 20-30 years ago rather than now.
In the early years of the century Internet was something dedicated to geeks. Set up an Internet connection was something thougher than today and people who managed then had a superior minimum education than contemporary ones. Netiquette was something never codified formally but well know to everybody and - above all - always respected.
The numer of times I've seen the Netiquette fucked up by Internet dwellers in a whatever social network are countless.
First of all everything started getting worse, IMHO, when some people realised that the Internet could become a way of business, and then that you could make money on it. It's a common law that money has the power to spoil everything and everyone and the Internet was no exception.
The Internet is a powerful platform, if only people would be educated (yes, educated) to the use of it. We could really use to gather consense for battles to fight for the humanity's sake, but at last we all go wrong in the opposite way.
One of the stronghold of the communication itself is the capacity of speakers not just to speak but to LISTEN too. Internet dwellers today don't want to listen: they simply use the Internet to abuse the famous "quarter hour" of a self-named celebrity to tell whatever is passing through their head, and they don't want to listen at any other reason than their own.
I'm getting sick at this like many other people stated here. As a technician I'm used to have a pragmatic approach to conversations: if we debate about a problem I'm supposed it's because we're trying to find out a solution. If you don't care about the solution because you just want to impose your view of the matter, communication in any way is simply useless and I'm not interested to.
Social networks fucked us up. They have become the idiots' garbage collector and it's useful to keep us good as idiots believe that problems could be solved spreading out their rage on Facebook.
People has often a schizofrenic attitude to social networks: protected by the anonimity of a screen they experience the power of telling people things in a way they'd never use to talk if you meet them on the street. Even the finest people you can meet in real life, behind a screen can express themselves in the worst way you could imagine them. And you're there reading and asking yourself if they were acting when you met them or now that they're writing to you.
Sometimes it seems that the "Idiocracy" prophecy has been fulfilled, maybe in a more disastrous way that fiction could imagine that. | | submissions | | comments | | favorites |
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