I'm never really the first person jumping on various trend's bandwagons, but lately I jumped on one and discovered much more.
After urging from half a dozen different friends, I decided to give in and create a Facebook account. After all, even my mother has one.
I figured it'd be one of those things you create an account for once and then never log in again. Wrong.
It's hard to understand the appeal until you actually get into it. I was amazed at how fast friends built up... people are on there constantly. And such random people. Every person I've ever met in my life, it seems, was adding me. Regular social parameters simply do not apply on facebook. People answer these random interview questions about people they would never really talk to in real life... I think that's kinda great.
Such is the amazingness of the internet. The internet gets a bad rep from pedophiles and prostitutes on Craig's List and viruses and hoaxes and porn and corrupting the youth... Okay, so I almost closed this window in fear.
We get so lost in complaining and finding fault with everything that we lessen the benefits of what we have.
I'm going to stop now before that gets even more preachy.
I suppose this post doesn't really have any point other than to express my rekindled appreciate for the internet, communication, and the better side of humanity.
How weirdly positive was that? The world is weird lately.
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