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I’ve grown up on a lot of islands and at one time lived on an island of about 2000 people. I was only in 5th grade, but even then, the biggest problem I heard about life on a small island is that people talk. If you fart one day, the next day evvvery one will know how bad it smelled. My conclusion then was that as long as I don’t do anything terrible life will be good.
Today things are a bit more complicated. It’s the age of the internet and the ‘coconut wireless’ has had some upgrades. At any party you can expect pictures to be uploaded the next day to facebook, myspace, or one of those other (lousy) sites. At any place or time you can expect any conflict or exciting event to be documented by camera phones or written in a blog/forum at the very least. People not only talk — they make all the information available to the whole world!
I’m shy person and for the most part incredibly private. When I first saw facebook my thought was “what kind of nut-jobs would put themselves on here!” And yet everyone does it — it’s pretty popular too. So maybe I’m the unusual one there. I finally broke and made a facebook too. I decided that there are only two reasons it would be bad to have information on the internet: 1) someone wants to physically attack you or 2) some authority wants to arrest you. To prevent either of these two situations my thoughts are the same as when living on a small island: don’t be an a**hole.
It’s pretty clear this information everywhere, anytime, about anything and everyone is here to stay. For the assholes of the world, this is a problem. Either learn to be nice real quick or hope we start colonizing space so there is someplace to move and start your life over.
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August 12th, 2010 at 1:44 am
Camera phones are in great demand these days, i own at least two of them-`-