A few things to keep in mind during your online journey…
Many of them are young
If you are over 30 then think back to your younger self and what you could expect that younger self. Note that these kids, who are familiar and comfortable with technology, will have different ways of displaying and expressing their ignorance of life and the world. It’s the same ignorance that you had, but they will express it differently.
Creepier
The rejection is less painful because nobody has to look at your face and see the absolute contempt there. This means that people can be as creepy as they want to be, as hurtful and immature. All you see of them is a user-name. You get a partial glimpse of who they are in the effect they want to have. If they try to be funny then they want to be liked so they try to provide good feelings, if they try to be hurtful then they want to feel powerful, because being able to hurt makes them feel that way.
Many have issues with socializing
That’s because the internet is a beautiful solution for people who can’t deal with real life interaction. Everything in real life is slow, takes patience and physical effort. You have to buy women drinks and have real time conversations without being able to look up your words and fact-check, and spend literally hours before they will take their clothes off, and even then many of them won’t do it with the lights on. On the Internet you can have a naked woman on your monitor in under 5 minutes even if you are on dial-up.
You never know who exactly you are talking to
Meaning that people can portray themselves as ignorant or smarter, and modulate any combination of those things as they see fit if they are skillful enough. The skill to do this comes from the amount of time you have to spend online, not necessarily from being intelligent. This means that you can’t really trust anybody on the Internet. You can’t really know them because you are only seeing the part of them that is within their ability to control. This means that you can’t ever really dismiss anybody.
Because there is little honest feedback…
People tend to have a high opinion of their ideas. If you start a blog today, unless you invite people who know you from work or your friends (if you have any) to view your writing, you probably won’t and odds are nobody who knows you will ever read your writing. Your readership won’t care to comment, except for trolls and people who want traffic, and so you will never really get an honest assessment of your work. If you write about something that people care about then the ones that share your opinion will agree with everything you say, and the ones that don’t will dismiss it all, neither one will care about how well you express your ideas.













Thu, Sep 10, 2009, by Nick Brice
Web Talk