Today’s rant

Being involved in the Internet Industry for over 12 years now I’ve probably heard it said a hundred times or more that the Internet is destroying the social bonds that hold our society together. Statements like that are made by uninformed, narrow-minded people that really need to open their eyes and see what’s happening in society today!

Reality Check!

Look at us! We’re all around here in cyberspace, using SMS, tweeting, hanging out on facebook and myspace re-connecting with old friends and keeping in touch with the friends we have better than our parents, or any generation previous has ever been able to do!..

I mean sure, my mom had her list of friends that she wrote two once every few months, but how can you compare that to “How’s it going a couple times a week?”. To giving your friend from high school you haven’t seen in 20 years a .22 pistol to help him out in Mafia Wars or kicking your college buddy’s butt in Lexulous!?

There’s an FB group here of people from my highschool that get together for a Beer every month or two! lol I look at that and remember my dad getting together with one buddy from highschool every 5 or 10 years, the only one he was able to keep in touch with.

There is no way that anyone can ever convince me that the Internet breaks down social interaction. I remember in highschool (and know of youth now) that are social outcasts, and don’t fit in. Life for many of them was torture, and some never made it. Today we have a global village, a place where anyone from any background, belief system, or social quirk is able to find a place where they belong, people of like minds that they can fit in with.

We are becoming a new global social community. A community of people bound by our common interests and not separated by distance, oceans and borders… This is a brave new world, and I tell ya it’s going to be AWESOME!

…. ok ok … I’m putting the soapbox back under the porch…
deep breath, inhale, hold it – 1-2-3 exhale…
I’m good… =o)