You know that I'm there.
Maybe you're there...?
But most definitely they are there. Two groups that the average adult always wants to place in the protective 'cone of silence' for extended periods of time, sometimes years; children and racists. The same two groups that always manage to find the fastest, easiest, and...well, let's face it, most eye-popping, jaw-dropping ways to out-smart and race pass the average adult every single time.
And yet some average adults still insist on acting horrified that 13 year olds and hate groups are pimping the web in daily droves right along with marketing execs and singles looking for love. Geez, it's the internet! Of course, with just a click, they are all up in YourSpace, and like everything else, if it has buttons your kids know how use it better than you do! And if it can be used to further hate or violence, then some militant or martyr on a mission will know how to use it better than you do!
Why am I off on this tangent? Well, as I was reading this in yet another unending series of articles about the growth and filtering of online networks, I realized that while my current 'actual' social life has dwindled horridly (should I dwell on this I just might whimper...Really), my 'virtual' social life is much more active than ever. This is mainly because my present job and freelance work forces me to be on the computer for the majority of the day so I've just gravitated to an 'online life'. (Yeah, it's almost as sad as it sounds, so I'll accept a bit of sympathy if you like.) And in the 'actual' world, when we put "Explicit Lyrics" labels on CD's, have lewd sex scenes in video games, young girls of different colors (Lamb and Lynx Gaede along with Autum Ashante are only a few currently making headlines) barely old enough to have lived in this world but apparently old enough to have been taught a searing rage for it, we have to realize that no amount of sanitizing, website removal, blocks, or guards are going to keep the world all clean and white (no pun intended li'l Gaede girls).
We must adapt to the technology we live in and either roll with it or be rolled over by it. Get with it, it's not YourSpace, and sorry Tom, but it's hardly even MySpace, as usual it's TheirSpace (damn, their 'They' go again!) so just deal with it people.
It's just that new world order.
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