Saturday, September 24, 2011

The stigma against users.

I'm kind of tired of having to justify my love of web browsing to everyone. It's as if there's this stigma against users that I don't quite understand. The internet is a network made up of users from around the world, so many rely on it for various forms of communication & education.

Sure there are people out there who spend hours online (WOW jokes aside) but that's not me. I go to events, museums, shows, movies, crawls, cons, parks and so on. I visit friends & family. I read, write, play etc...

I sit in front of a computer terminal all day, what else am I supposed to do? I play some games, read articles, share interesting, sometimes strange, links, photo's & information.

Does that make me loser? Does that make me any less intelligent than someone whose never used a computer? Is there anyone living in NYC who hasn't had to use a computer? Anyone who hasn't spent some time online browsing for fun?

I doubt it.

Don't judge me.

Anyone who parades around claiming to have this superior  knowedge over all others is obviously insecure about their own intelligence.

Why shouldn't I be allowed to browse & laugh? Is that a crime?

"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult." - Sigmund Freud

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