It is about growing pains of our technology. We are still pretty young with it, new problems arising daily. I have always said that technology is our strength...and our downfall. We are not sophisticated or emotionally mature enough to handle it.
If defriending someone on Facebook can cause someone to commit suicide, can we REALLY handle the responsibility of our internet actions? I think not. The internet vultures only have to stay one step ahead of the naive. This is their livelihood....and it is recreation for the likes of us.
We are at the mercy of instant gratification...scams...faux tirades, false personas, deviance, perversions of every kind, petitions and petitions against petitions.
We can stalk. We can be stalked. We can hack. We can be hacked. This technology is a game changer of all that we knew....and common place and almost mundane for the young. We are pre schoolers and we need to grow up fast, but it will never be fast enough.
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This has really hit a note for me Frank...
The whole thread (28 posts)
- Is the internet creating an apocalypse...
- The Right is reaping the whirlwind.
- Over reacting? I don't think so.
- An example of what I am seeing over and over
- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
- Newspapers, magazines, and the evening news have agendas, too.