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In the wake of the Strikethrough 2007 schemozzle, I seem to have seen at least half a dozen newspaper articles about the freakishness of people on the internet. Not related to LJ, just other things. YouTube, MySpace, people stalking other people, setting up fake Facebook accounts, all kinds of things. And what strikes me about the people who write these articles is that they none of them seem to have any comprehension of what internet communities are about and how they work. They no doubt use the internet: email their friends, book their holidays, shop, download music, all the usual stuff. But I would bet that none of them *engage* in the internet in the way that we do. They do not understand that internet communities are, in a way, a separate subculture, in which social rules vary from those in the Real World, and this lack of understanding leads them to interpret, in so very many cases, internet community users as freaks and weirdos who need to get a life. Pah.
May. 31st, 2007
1. I have a beautiful computer, which connects to the internet, and which is half-way to having an organised file structure.
2. We are about to move into a lovely flat with exciting new things all over the shop.
3. The weather seems to have perked up a bit.
4. I am poor but not quite as hideously impoverished as I have been the rest of this year.
5. I have the day off tomorrow.
6. I have pretty red shoes.
7. We have been spectacularly organised with utility bills etc, so everything is set up for when we move. We rock.
8. I am going to see QI being filmed tonight, along with some of my favourite people.
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helenmia has created warriors4ackles, in a moment of genius.
10. I found Deadly Boring on a disk, and will be sharing carefully chosen passages with you all. Look forward to it. That book is a literary treat.
2. We are about to move into a lovely flat with exciting new things all over the shop.
3. The weather seems to have perked up a bit.
4. I am poor but not quite as hideously impoverished as I have been the rest of this year.
5. I have the day off tomorrow.
6. I have pretty red shoes.
7. We have been spectacularly organised with utility bills etc, so everything is set up for when we move. We rock.
8. I am going to see QI being filmed tonight, along with some of my favourite people.
9.
helenmia has created warriors4ackles, in a moment of genius.10. I found Deadly Boring on a disk, and will be sharing carefully chosen passages with you all. Look forward to it. That book is a literary treat.
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May. 31st, 2007 03:16 pmHere's a depressing fact. As of June 2006, the best selling newspapers in this country are The Sun, The News of the World, and the Daily Mail. Yay.