Over at the Daily Caller, Charles Glasser has a great article on what went wrong. Glasser calls the internet a cesspool and he's not wrong. In his article Glasser talks about anonymous speech, clickbait, corporate pollution, social networks and abuse of Section 230 (a legal term).
When the internet became a thing back in the mid-90's we were weening ourselves off of TV, restricting ourselves to watching at night. We wouldn't even turn on the tube until 6:30 or so - daily Peter Jennings, Simpsons, Seinfeld - a policy we stick by even today.
At the same time the internet became worse than TV. We spend more time on the internet then we ever did watching TV and we've made it our policy to stay off the damn thing at night, more or less. We are still tweaking.
Personally, we have two problems with the internet. We spend way too much time on FB, just waiting for someone to message us. We also spend too much time looking things up. We'll be watching a Brave's game, say, and the camera will linger on former Braves outfielder Dale Murphy. We'll wonder, 'Whatever happened to him?' Well, now we can find out what happened to Dale Murphy, or Glenn Hubbard, or Bob Horner, or Rick Mahler...
The thing is, googling people, places, things doesn't seem to make us smarter and we don't retain any of the info. We can't tell you what Dale Murphy is up to these days.
We don't find we're getting much out of all the info, all the contacts. We feel like leaving FB would be like cutting off an appendage.
[Ah, fear of castration-Ed]
No not that appendage.'
[Sure....-Ed]
Indeed the internet does suck.
Speaking of Facebook, I'm sure you've been following the headlines on their stock! Holy cow!
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