Sit down, this may come as a shock, but the internet is being used for evil. Surprized? Didn't think so, but either way its time to abandon the internet. This is incidently the last entry in this blog.
Social networking - an epically awesome way to distract from anything remotely constructive. But isn't all virtual reality farms and 'likes'. Nope, people far too clever and with a warped sense of right, wrong and decency have decided they can tell if your gay or straight from the content you post and the friends you have on facebook and alike, shown here. This dosen't have much of an impact in western states which are hopefully tolerant but say you were entering a country like the one in Africa which just made it punishable by death and it was decided based on your facebook account you were gay - sad times all round.
You can't even protest properly anymore over the internet without being found out and traced over social networking sites and caught. That or countries such as China will block you from them all together. Slactivism - slacker activism. This is another way social netwrks are ruining the protest, using our own lazyness against us - we join groups, feel good and then forget about them. I'm guilty of this like anyone, but have raged against the x-factor, do it! Do it now! An internet wise government is bad news all round, in a internet take on the journalistic process of soft soaking governments hire people to spread the good word about them. Having been employed by a music pr company to do the same maybe I can't really talk but done by governments this has serious implications on freedom of opinion and speech. Something taken to extremes by potential laws such as this.
But wait - take a minute from barn raising and wagon building to hear about the awesomeness of podcasting. Building on the development of RSS feeds this maybe the first and only good thing to come from Apple. Its good for videos, pictures and music so ideal for catching up TV or radio prgrammes you've missed - it also means you don't have to go looking for stuff, it comes straight to you - good times. Its easy enough to make your own as well so everyone can make random podcasts and inflict them on the world with ease. A directory of UK podcasts can be found here.
Right, for now that it for this blog - hope you've enjoyed the content, embeds and everything else. Now back to putting information about myself into social networking sites and buying things from websites. Take care :)
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