nomadthethird
more issues than Time mag
Americans were sarcastic long before the internet came around.
I do agree with the whole bit about anonymous people being able to speak from the imaginary "center", though...
This can have disastrous results e.g. that woman who logged onto AIM anonymously and goaded a teen girl into hanging herself.
But tragedy strikes without the internet, too. In the past three months two teen girls in the town I'm in have hanged themselves from trees. One had an infant daughter.
I get annoyed with the cottage industry that's formed around blaming the internet for all the world's problems, too.
I do agree with the whole bit about anonymous people being able to speak from the imaginary "center", though...
This can have disastrous results e.g. that woman who logged onto AIM anonymously and goaded a teen girl into hanging herself.
But tragedy strikes without the internet, too. In the past three months two teen girls in the town I'm in have hanged themselves from trees. One had an infant daughter.
I get annoyed with the cottage industry that's formed around blaming the internet for all the world's problems, too.