And Facebook and Myspace and Youtube. The sites themselves are perfectly reasonable (actually, I take issue with Facebook as a concept, but that's another article in itself) but people ruin them. As a bit of research for this post I looked at about 50 random blogs. 47 of them were a combination of the following:
Link farms
Spanish teenage girls
Japanese teenage girls
American teenage girls
About babies
The other 3 (the interesting ones) were the following:
A pretentious emo guy with very little to say, except for the obvious (things like money sucks).
A housewife trying to relieve the monotony of her life by analysing parts of her life, like movies she just watched or unusual things that she got for Christmas. Actually, she seemed kind of cool.
A guy who manages christian ministries for teens. Among other things, it included tips on how to take advantage of people's natural reasoning faculties in order to convert them. This one made me physically ill. I hate it when people use anything but the facts to convince people of things.
I think you get the idea. I recently read an article (that I can't find anymore) about Facebook relying on it's users to be "Beacons of Egoism" and I think that the same logic applies here. So now I feel like more of a jerk for writing this IN A BLOG!!!!! Still, I'm trying to use this blog to say something (or rather a collection of nothings). If I ever mention my personal life, it's in order to prove a point. And in it's purest form the internet is a catalyst for the free exchange of ideas.
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