Monday, February 13, 2012
Every Fishy in the Mainstream, Please
Speaking of common experiences online, how many sites do you visit that are not mainstream. Sure, you're online using Facebook, google, and youtube like it's going out of style, but who visits other sites??? On a daily basis? Now, I know that this is a tad contradictory because google is a site designed to take you to other websites, but the content you get from the list google offers you is mainstream. Its the most popular, most used, most likely to apply to you content. And, although google knows you are an individual with your own likes and dislikes (aka things you will buy and things you will not buy), it is the aggregate data received by google from all of its users that ultimately determines what shows up on your screen. Some people who are avid users of the internet and readers of diverse content and visitors of obscure online material, but I am not one of those people. I actually only use a few sites that are relevant to my daily life. Even though we might think that the world is online now and we are all using the internet, in truth, we are not all true "internet users." The internet has so much more to offer than people use it for. So go surf the web! What ever happened to that? Oh, yea, so like facebook can offer you all the entertainment you need online...that's why you friended that one girl, because she's always posting....interesting pictures of herself. Who really USES the internet? When was the last time you went exploring without the use of a site like stumble upon.com?
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