'Fuck Social Media'/Why I'm Here
Fuck social media, fuck Meta, fuck Elon Musk, fuck his ugly ass cars, and why are dudes like that always obsessed with outer space? It's probably because they know nobody on Earth can stand their asses. Fuck AI, fuck self-driving cars, fuck those little bitch ass robots that deliver food, and if your delivery is ever delayed please know it's because I kicked the SHIT out of your fast food robot, it's still trying to recover. Fuck the AI summary Google puts above all my emails, and how it's always trying to finish my sentences for me, fuck Google, fuck the entire concept of 'productivity'. Fuck CGI, fuck smart refrigerators, fuck how there are ads on EVERYTHING now, and fuck these Ipad kids and whatever the fuck they're watching. (I know that screen is so STICKY!)
Fuck 'an unbelievable amount of new features', fuck 'bigger, better, never seen before', fuck your grandpa's 3D printer...nobody wants any of that plastic bullshit, Pop. Fuck family dinners where everybody stares at their phone the whole time, fuck date nights where you're both on Hinge looking for somebody more interesting to fuck, fuck disconnection, fuck algorithmically-imposed loneliness. And fuck people who listen to Tiktok in public without headphones, dear God WHY?!
I want the real internet back! The one where we spent hours and hours building our websites, playing silly little games, making new friends and emailing them, sharing our lives, sharing our interests on forums, chatting with strangers, building connections all over the world, sharing information and knowledge and learning all kinds of new things. That's what I'm here for; what I'm looking for. I believe it's still here and we can still access it, for now. Projects like Bear Blog, and y'all who are participating here, give me that hope.
So I hope you'll forgive me if I come across as "old man yells at cloud" here. That's really not my intention. I think we as a society have the power to create so many things...and we have the responsibility to honestly assess what those things contribute and what they take away. This just happens to be my personal assessment.