Tuesday, 31 March 2015

The Internet and I

Since the bond between the Internet and I is based on both admiration and irritation, I am going to need a super intelligent hoax detection app to curb the irritation bit, and to make sure I confirm everything that appears on my timeline before reacting - Je ne peux prendre aucun risque.

So much self-serving claims and propaganda these days and it’s becoming so damn creepy. Sometimes you read something and go bonkers only to realise that you were just furious about nothing. Other times you’re in a state of euphoria, but until you realise that the cause of your delight was just a mirage.

On top of its many advantages, the internet has become a hub for distorted truths and personal opinions conveyed as facts - a place where almost everyone is a news channel and anyone can say: “you know what, you're all wrong, I'm right”, fabricating anything just to sway the opinion of defectively-educated people to any direction, but that’s no fun.

If you ask me, don’t trust anything you see, find out or believe without checking it clean. Don’t even trust me or this piece you’re reading because it’s on the internet.

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