1. Talentless hacks with a video camera and 3217 MySpace and Facebook friends get TV commercials and TV appearances just for being featured on YouTube.
2. Using a computer as a secret hidden bunker, nerdcore and geekdom can anonymously comment on whatever and whoever they want, without accountability… Isn’t that a definition of “coward”?
3. Snotty grammar police and self-proclaimed “spelling experts” can now go online and personally berate everyone who mistakes “populace for populous”.
4. There are no more surprises, just “spoiler warnings”. There is no waiting, only instant downloads. There is no more comedy, just fart jokes, cynicism and snark.
5. When the plug is pulled, people’s brains will melt into taffy and everyone will become socially awkward zombies, bumping into each other, afraid to speak face to face, for fear of physical retaliation.
6. Too many people (including this Fake Rockstar) have put 90% of their creative eggs in one Interweb basket, hastily abandoning conventional means of communication all together… Leaving us all in a lurch when civilization collapses (see #5).
Go. Continue to be little online zombies. I think I’ll walk the dog in the woods and read a paperback book. I may even hand write my suicide note… Apparently making me all “old-school”. Call me a Luddite if you wish, but I have a wood-burning stove, candles, a battery-powered cassette player and just enough bravery to confront others in “real space”.
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