As the days go by, I’ve grown to hate the Internet. It’s a piece of diseased linen that you wear daily. It pulls you down into the depths of illness, whether it be emotional or even physical.
But that’s on the bad days. On the good days, the Internet is your pickup. It’s what keeps you going, until you hit that oversized speed bump that your suspension wasn’t quite expecting. Then you’re shocked to discover that it’s a horrible place and you hate everyone on it. Sadly, that only lasts until you get a little nostalgic and remember how great it was just yesterday.
The circle repeats, as does your digital life. But is it just that anymore? First, there was a requirement that said it has to be something different from your real life. When priorities were too uneven to control, you integrated it into your real life, talking about all the new things from the web. That wasn’t enough to satisfy the need for a disguise, so you decided to bring the masquerade that you had on the Internet into your daily life.
I know from personal experience that the Internet can make you depressed. A computer will never be your friend and neither will anyone displayed on it. I don’t care if you know them in real life – it will never be the same. In the end, I feel less social and completely disconnected from the real world. There’s no satisfaction here.
Hello destruction, our old friend. He greets thee with a warm, yet suddenly brisk wave of debris that you didn’t expect to see. First, you decided to have two lives – one digital, the other real. However, since that wasn’t enough, you shifted into full-swing real life, which now includes a digital one by default. How long is it until newborns get a Facebook created automatically at birth? I do not jest.
There’s so much available right here at our fingertips, yet we generally use it to be an even more primitive society than we were before, not educating ourselves, but rather just digressing into a slow mental breakdown. With everything available now, there’s not really a need to think anymore. Why not just switch off our brains or feed that ADD that all of society has become accustomed to by now? Can we stay on task at all or must we be satisfied by a different solution to our current problem, which just happens to change every ten seconds?
The now society. The instant universe that we all dreamed of. The one that now holds the key to our imminent demise. We’re so intelligent that we let a digital world get in the way of who we truly are.
Everything in this digital world is an endless loop, yet overall a downward spiral to the fall of true social behavior or possibly the redefining of it. (If it’s the latter, I don’t even want to be alive to experience such a new type of social.)
I hate this place, but it’s where I work and I really like my job. I’m torn between daring to leave the Internet for a few years while waiting for society to collapse and staying here to watch it all. I’m not saying that the Internet will be responsible for the fall of humanity, but it’ll surely play a key role.
What inspired this article was Google Glass. It’s the future that I honestly never want to see implemented on a large scale. Even right now, I no longer take my phone when I go places most of the time because I don't want to be contacted. I want to be free.
Innovation is good, but this will soon become the opposite.