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The Good, Bad and Ugly Internet |
Few would deny that the Internet and email is perhaps the greatest communication system ever created in the history of mankind. Of course few could debate that it is severely miss used by those who do not care. Folks like Spammers, threaten the flow of information and communication and it is almost like a terrorist attack on our infrastructure.
Then there are the sploggers who go to online forums and then ruin the dialogues. Indeed it is a travesty, but too we must remember the types of uses for the Internet, by those who use this tool.
We have teens with Blogs, we have people surfing for porn, we have people putting up pictures of their pets, we have people reading the news, we have people promoting politics, selling trinkets, ego surfing and serious people learning, doing research and such.
It is a big game, a collective of true human thought (scary that thought) if you will and realize that the average human is doing what they do, if it were not on the Internet they might be watching 7 hours a day of TV or gossiping about nothing-ness to no where.
So we must consider that humans will be humans and do what humans do, they will use tools to their advantage and use them to destroy. It is an unfortunate fact of the species, but once again we see the truth. This is why the Internet is both good and bad, wonderful and ugly, beautiful and frightening. Think on this.
L. Winslow is an Economic Advisor to the Online Think Tank, a Futurist and retired entreprenuer http://www.worldthinktank.net . Currently he is planning a bicycle ride across the US to raise money for charity and is sponsored by http://www.Calling-Plans.com and all the proceeds will go to various charities who sign up.Article source http://w4rum.com/2493.t
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