The header of this blog used to say "philosophy, humor, and game design". Now it says "largely unedited" which is more accurate, but less ambitious. For months, all I had was a decent tongue-twister, which is more of a hard truth than a great truth. Time to step it up a bit.
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There's no use for anything but perfect friends on the internet. It's big enough that just happening upon another person means you share an interest, but it's hard to stay with anyone because there's no reason to put up with differences. Travel is cheap on the web, so the only people we have to tolerate are ourselves.
People are ending their searches, however, at social networking sites. Why? Because the result of social sites and networks then, whether they've intended it or not, is to consume all of your friends and spit out giant aggregate superfriends. Some facet of these things is always ready to support anything you say, agree that anyone on the planet is a jerk, and tell you you're the greatest/smartest/most attractive person in history. And they'll do it at any hour of the day.
It's all a pile of crap, though, because that kind of approval is useless, even detrimental. You stagnate, weighed down by all the appreciation. Appreciation of people who, when you're the discordant one, don't have to listen to you either. How do you learn when your mistakes are reinforced by a dozen voices and ignored by the rest? How do you debate with people who are only there to develop their own superfriends?
I don't know.
Probably by video-blogging. Comments on youtube are vicious.
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I should have just named this "I don't like social networking sites". Maybe I was subconsciously hoping for mis-clicks on google.
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