FEAR of an Internet-Dominated Planet

"Be afraid, be VERY afraid...OF THE INTERNET"

Happily, more and more people are getting that message. How nice if the Dot Com Boom and BUST comes back again!

Remember when people fretted that the Internet was just a passing fancy? Websites went under. People who speculated in buying up domain names began to panic. The government fabulously passed weak laws so that red-ink Amazon and creepy eBay and little monster Google didn't have to patrol their sites for copyright violations.

Now?

The very laws that protected the grown-up demons are biting their asses. Google, Ebay, Amazon and the rest insisted on "FREEDOM OF SPEECH" and anonymity for all. They fought so that most every case brought to court was dismissed because "oh, gee, you can't prove this lovely person used the computer for spamming, hacking or illegal distribution of movies and music. It could've been someone else. And besides, prove damages! Har har!"

Now, people are worried about how easily hackers can do their damndest. How cyber bullies get away with harassment. How you can't tell fakes from the real thing. How you don't know when a download will have a new virus. Time to STEP BACK from the Internet and shop and work among REAL PEOPLE again. From NBC's website:

Is it POSSIBLE that people are finally bored with Kardashians in the news all the time, and jerky websites like the Daily Beast and Decider and BuzzFeed peppering their shit with endless gossip and garbage? The NY POST ran a piece on how so much of the celebrity news is hoaxed.

The headline was EVERYTHING TODAY IS A LIE.

(Well, yeah, a decade ago Dylan sang it: "All the truth in the world amounts to one big lie."

The article points out that not only are politicians bullshitting, but today's stars deliberately lie to stir up sales, and franchises like 'Game of Toilets' will hype crap with alarming tricks like killing off a character...only to bring the character back after it "trends" on Twatter.

Some insist Beyonce's rage at Jay-Z was just a way to make sure she had a million "streams" on her pissy "Lemonade." And did Sharon really have enough of Ozzy or is THAT just more reality-show nonsense, too? Last week "Saturday Night Live" did a sketch about how BORING "Game of Thrones" has become and that the "Jon Snow is dead" plot line was a load of crap. "He's not dead. You're not dead? Come on, wake up already."

Mortality, folks. Why spend our lives on this garbage? Because we don't want to face up to the REAL news about ISIS and Climate Change?

The Internet has done a few good things: easy shopping for stuff that we'd spend hours and hours looking for in bookshops and record stores. Connecting with some interesting people we wouldn't have known. Instant facts instead of spending all afternoon at the library checking through encyclopedias and other reference books.

But ALL of it has come with a heavy price. How nice that all the chumps out there MAY be smartening up.

You get "spoofed" into identity theft. Your bank or some other important company apologizes because hackers now have all your personal information. You are sick and tired of not only stupid emails from niggers in Nigeria but the constant fakery of jerks in Sri Lanka or Syria or other places pretending to be from Paypal or Amazin or your credit card company.

Even the "good stuff" ain't that great after all: the brave new world of impersonal boxes arriving by mail so that you save a few bucks over going to a real store. And Farcebook and Twatter and forums? Oh, how lovely to connect with people who aren't even the gender they claim to be. How ridiculous to become "friends" with somebody on Farcebook you'll never meet. And how sad when you think you've developed a "relationship" and the person suddenly ignores your e-mails for no reason and drops you like a turd. Nope, the Internet is NOT the big fix after all.