Sunday, June 26, 2011

World wide what?

I got spammed this morning on FB and luckily enough, removed it thank you friend.
But lately been feeling the pull to pull away from this internet thing.  Not just because there's these links to depression and spending time on the internet.  But it's a little too much.  Like yesterday, there's a local yoga studio that had over fifteen status updates on the FB thing all surrounding one event.  While this is annoying, it's an effective way of using their FB status to promote an event.   But how effective is it?  And how much time am I spending on looking at the FB statuses of friends, people I've come into contact with previously and are friends on FB, searching for things only to find stuff that is optimized better coming up first on Google search, etc.  Yes, the internet is a great tool, we all communicate better, but quite frankly it's also a sounding board for a lot of people who long to take their aggression and anger out on others.  Yelp, for instance, can be a helpful tool but it also has so much griping and unsubstantiated griping that really is hard on small business owners and gives a false idea of how good a business is.  One review I saw blatantly lied about a business practice and yet is still allowed online and figures into how a business is rated. We won't even go into the online posting boards, think craigslist, and see the horror going on there.
I run into people all the time that aren't on this internet thingy.   Some are stuck in the dark ages about things. But others, well, their life doesn't seem to be too much affected by their non-use of the internet and all things digital.  They deal with humans on a one-on-one basis.  They seem pretty ok and happy.  Hmmm....

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