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This article focuses on the unprecedented mutation of the once private and honorable art of public diary to a mechanical, soul-less money grubbing business that has mom and pop logging in and typing away to pay for a portion of the mortgage.
Search engines claim the responsibility of providing its customers with relevant and authentic information. Yet, amidst a world now connected from pole to pole for the first time in the history of human society, it is nearly impossible to find even a trace of true humanity in the words that breeze past us with every click and scroll.
Immediately it seems obvious that it is the people, not businesses, that have catered to this problem. But this is certainly far from the truth. The word "blogging" has become synonymous with some false idea of individual power: The ability to notify the world about something.
But what real purpose do blogs provide? Sites such as MySpace and Blogger, amongst an array of other online blogging utilities are filled with pictures one would find in an advertisement, top 40 music, and useless banter and commentary that mimics almost entirely the supposed "mockery" that Seinfeld presented.
Aside from the personal and entirely faceless tidbits that these diaries provide, you have subject oriented blogs that cater to one specific ideal or purpose. Yet, as we peruse these pages the vast number of links we will never click on and ads we'd rather not see makes the reader really feel like the author is more interested in making this information seem important than actually making the information important.
It's a shadow now, the simple idea and memory of the poems and personal websites that filled the internet a few years ago. Many of them sprouted for the same reason as many of them exist now: For the sake of showmanship and notoriety. But there was a much larger saturation of genuine, heartfelt articles and pieces of writing that actually made you want to email the author.
Therein lies the problem now: All the information we find via search engines are mimickeries of this genuine content.
This article, along with lots of other articles on this site are not created for the sake of income or notoriety. There is no place to exchange links or place ads. In the turbulent sea of information, here you find thoughts and ideas that are almost completely unmolested by any personal biases for economic or social gain.
And whether this information is deemed strong or poor, it is certainly being provided with the most sincere intentions and can be loosely considered helpful, and informative. If one were to search for a commentary on the decline of truly emotional content on the internet, an article such as this would most certainly be helpful to a potential reader.
Yet, your discovery of this piece of writing is in-itself a stroke of luck: It is nearly impossible to find this article unless one randomly enters words that are exact to the ones found here.
Is this a complaint because other, less deserving sites are getting lots more traffic? Certainly, to a degree. But the intention behind this complaint is certainly not based on social or economic envy - It is a complaint about the wasted potential of human communication.
And when one truly steps back to realize that a young man in Russia may be able to empathize with a young woman in Iraq who can empathize with a middle aged widow in Canada, and that this potential empathy is being dissolved in a slurry of words stuffed with greed, ads, and bias, one cannot help but complain about the state of things. |
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