the main point of the internet

There is no main point to the internet. There are maybe nodes but then the cloud takes over!!!!

What’s up dude, I really like what you usually have to say (even bought your book early:) but I gotsa say, this is one of the most idiotic cartoons you’ve ever done. I realize social media is your shtick and whatnot, but can we get past the mystery that you can actually “socialize” on the internet? Am I socializing with you right now? Not really, unless you define socialize as Person A relaying a message somehow to Person B… what a dumb definition that would be. Here I am typing a comment to you, without know that you’ll ever even read it. Ok, so maybe you’re reading it now… are we socializing yet? At the end of the day, I’m sitting here hacking away at the keyboard staring at my monitor, maybe you’re staring at a screen right now reading this comment, and we call that socializing? And this is the main point of the internet? How sad that would be. Frankly the internet devalues social interaction, because by me spending time here staring at the screen, I’m not actually interacting, face-to-face, with a real human being in real-time. What I hear over and over again is what a waste of time things like FB and Twitter are, how empty it makes you feel. Of course there’s the flip side that you can meet really cook people by way of the internet (I’ve certainly made friends by way of internet, people I’ve met in real life) but to say that the main point of the internet (I agree Tim, there’s a main point?) is to remove social barriers??? The internet _is_ a social barrier, one that people hide behind so that they don’t have to face people in the real world. To make the point superclear: what if you were correct, this was the main point to the internet, and it was successful, i.e. it removed _all_ barriers to socializing, and because there are now no barriers, _all_ socializing between humans occurred on the internet! How f’ing depressing does that sound? Frankly if you want to socialize meet up with a friend or go to the bar – socializing on the internet is seriously lame, and all this talk about “social media” and “social objects” frankly just sounds ridiculous to any sane person who doesn’t spend most of their time on the internet.

The main point of the internet should be to make life in the real world easier and to limit the time spent on the internet. Sitting in front of the computer all day staring at a monitor and thinking you’re connecting with people is unhealthy.

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