Power beyond what a person is able to visualize, new windows and doors opened to satisfy a hungry mind. Unimaginable amounts of people linked through the vast jungle of social networking sites, instant messengers and forums. Such a gracious tool it is, a manifestation of progress, hate, love, and ignorance swirled together into a thing we call the world wide web. Where is the line that divides a tool and a weapon though? Where is it possible to see the dullness of a blade?
The Internet is a battle zone, a place for social ware fare. Sure, connections between people can happen, and bonds can be strengthened, but it’s a place where battalions of ideas wage war guerrilla style, jumping from seemingly irrelevant points in one big picture, hoping to stump the opponent. Sure there’s debate, but there’s always a time when people pull out other more violent tactics, DDOS attacks, Ping Bombs, Zip Bombs, Bandwidth inflation, etc. One would probably think to ask, “Where do these soldiers find fuel for their strength?” and the answer is anonymity. Anonymity is the mighty secret to the Internet. Behind a screen a person is in the same state of mind as a person on PCP; the feeling of power and impulses of violence course through them. Less self conscious, due to the fact that physical contact is nonexistent therefore factors of body language and tone of voice could never occur. The same concept could be seen with a masked burglar. If people don’t know who another person is, they wouldn’t care about the other person’s feelings.
How can one tell if the person behind the mask is actually a threat? Well naturally, it’s the person who doesn’t seem to argue with a stance; the people that seem to make blatantly irrelevant points and seem to just be arguing for the desire to argue. Often people like that are the ones that make the internet look like a slum. Just like with the ratio of harmless to burglars, the internet is filled with a majority of people who don’t mean harm, or don’t understand how to make a point.
On a side note:
Damn, I’m going to tone down my blogs and make them less huge… Also less serious.
Oi, but the really awful and amazing thing about the internet is that it fuels the desire to know. Just anything! If I know more about Marxist glue than I should.
It’s a plague, though. Same with all the other telecommunications stuff. We’ve got the attention span of gnats and it’s getting worse.
As to you point on anonymity, maybe if we fixed that then Youtube comments wouldn’t be the absolute vomit of humanity.
Lol nice BLAWG. it’s shorter than the other one though D:
Dude, that was too long and the first words were like “battle zone”. Did you write about like war and stuff? .__. i don’t like war…WRITE ABOUT FUN STUFF, THEN I’LL COMMENT GOODLY (<–lol goodly, i forgot the word i meant to use)
p.s. perhaps be less serious? lol jk
NICE BRAWG BLAWG MALOG
wow…
so THIS is how bryan sees the internet…
explains a lot.
You basically just wrote a whole three paragraphs explaining this:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
Haha wow, again it’s pretty deep. Um, yeah I can see where you’re coming from with all this but to me it seems like the majority don’t really experience this. Well I mean if they did then wouldn’t everyone be scared? Or is it more like a chain reaction, when you get attacked you feel the need to do the same to another. And I have heard of plenty of people who get to be who they really are when they are behind a computer screen. Well everything in this world comes with ups and downs, whether it be friends or filling out this blog thing, but it’s fascinating how you view the negative side of this thing we all use just to write this stuff. Most of the time when people think of something they try to see it with the “glass half full” but clearly your point of view makes it seem “less than half empty”.