04-22-2004, 09:35 PM
It's all perspective. Remember that to many others, a website like this one here is unbelievably silly and a complete waste of time and effort. The #1 response I get from Real Life people when they hear about this site (which is rare, because I do not talk about it openly) is "why don't you run ads and make some money?" They don't quite get the concept of a hobby. :)
What I find funny about weblogs is how many people seem to forget that EVERYTHING you put up can and will be archived, possible to use against you even decades from now. This is the Internet. Google has complete archives of Usenet going back to the 80's. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of people have lost their jobs due to things they put up on weblogs, assuming that nobody will find out about it.
But I don't think that it's a novelty that will go away. The Internet allows, for the first time in human history, the ability for anyone to have a voice that can be "heard" around the whole world. You can be sure that eventually, billions will use that, even just to talk about their pets, or their family, or what movies they like. Then they can watch their hit counter go up by 10 a month and be excited!
-Bolty
What I find funny about weblogs is how many people seem to forget that EVERYTHING you put up can and will be archived, possible to use against you even decades from now. This is the Internet. Google has complete archives of Usenet going back to the 80's. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of people have lost their jobs due to things they put up on weblogs, assuming that nobody will find out about it.
But I don't think that it's a novelty that will go away. The Internet allows, for the first time in human history, the ability for anyone to have a voice that can be "heard" around the whole world. You can be sure that eventually, billions will use that, even just to talk about their pets, or their family, or what movies they like. Then they can watch their hit counter go up by 10 a month and be excited!
-Bolty
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.