A common conception is that the internet is in an unrecoverable pit of hopelessness, toxic social media networks, coordinated bullying rings and nihilistic strongholds. Data mining mega corporations exploit users in the name of social media and exhort their digital footprints for their unjustly unscrupulous gains.
Is there a hope for things to get better? Maybe cat videos, elders making gardening vlogs are getting out shined by depths of perversion, violence, depravity and madness. It’s not usual for me to be petrified after a horror movie viewing experience but an assailant brutally breaking bones of an unconscious victim recorded on a security cam is hellish and dreadful million times in comparison. I don’t search for such stuff on the dark web or devious websites. Reddit has plenty of such horrific clips flying around. They come across unwarranted and sucks you in for a moment. The shock and trauma lasts for a while.
Communication, ease to educate ourselves and bringing about advocacy for the right causes are some of the obvious conveniences gifted to us by the internet. Although detrimental outcomes are stocking up. The atrocities became common and then mundane.
No Shame for Evil
A shameful aspect of group thinking on the internet is the need for association to a group. This way, each individual in a group feels obligated to deem the good deeds of adversarial groups hypocritical. Dishonesty, cognitive dissonance and ostentation are few of the terms flung around to demean the finer actions of people on the other side of the thought spectrum. This provides a hyperventilating atmosphere for unscrupulous bipartisanship to grow. I heard a comedian once say something along the lines that any shame associated with wickedness in one’s disposition can be subdued if they find like minded people on the internet. The opportunity for comradery is often misused by nefarious actors of a society through the internet. This is no longer an age of hiding your wicked afflictions, everyone has a safe space. In fact, the profit seeking internet entities like social media often waive any responsibility to seize the actions of culprits.
Spending Too Much Time on Nothing
Change is good until everything and everyone is moving the same direction. Then the concern for examination and re-evaluation is justly warranted. The uniqueness of daily internet experience is marred by mega entities like social media giants as the experience is sort of the same for everyone around the world. A tired person after work should look for activities on the internet which they are passionate about, instead of scrolling Instagram, Tiktok and everyone is watching the same “viral” content. Sure the algorithms would suggest things that you prefer but still one could not help but feel like being tied to an end of string.
Marketers are Ruining it
I don’t possess the financial opulence to advocate for everything paid but ad free on the internet. Although the trade-off of annoying little ads, spam emails in exchange for the freely available news sites, blogs, message boards and educational stuff has become hard to justify any more. Marketers and ad campaigners these days rely on the intrusive, outright spying and eavesdropping algorithms to reach their audience. Privacy activists are paranoid and rightly so.
I will be back for more rants.
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