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Showing posts with label the internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the internet. Show all posts

Friday, 1 July 2011

10 things I hate about the Internet

This article was written in the purest flash of inspiration during all of my career in online writing (well, so far).  It practically wrote itself. 

I had just spent a few hours surfing the Web, browsing piles of rubbish, drowning in ads, reading the nightmarish absurdities and being drained out of energy in the speed of light.  I recall I was also pretty angry then for personal reasons, and mixture of these circumstances fruited with the edgy, slightly sarcastic and unexpectedly funny piece on dark side of the Internet.

I generally like the Web, you know.  I work with it, goddamnit.  I've stumbled upon great things/acts/people/ideas that otherwise I would have no chance to meet.  But let's be honest - the really good stuff takes up maybe 10% of the web space, the rest is total (and mostly corporate) shit fountain.  Looking for something funky is sometimes satisfying, because it closely resembles treasure hunt. 

On other days I just feel I'm drowning in shit. 

Writing about it was an effective way of letting the steam off, and the result is actually pretty good. 

Bon appetit.