Food For Thought Again. On The Internet

Alo Party Peoples.

Here are some more thoughts.

Isn't it weird that, as much as the Internet and social media have wormed their way into all of our lives, relationships formed through that social media are considered not as important as "real" friends? I can see why it happens, the paradoxically vastly interconnected yet much less personal feeling nature of the Internet can make it very easy to forget that the words on the screen in front of you were typed by an actual human, and we should certainly remember that we are dealing with people, but it's still weird that people who make a living through the web are asked when they will get a "real" job.

On a related point, being emotionally invested in a work of fiction does not make one shallow, or crazy or odd. Whether it's nearly crying when River explains why she decides to leave with Juble Early, or being outraged by the actions of a reality TV starlet. Just because the source of the feeling is a fiction, doesn't make the emotion less real.

Have a nice day.

Greg.B