This is so common in schools nowadays! Every student thinks that his/her
opinion is so important that it must voiced immediately, whether or not
it has anything to do with the subject and whether or not the teacher is
speaking.
Dave P.
On 4/11/2011 10:36 AM, Jeremy wrote:
> On 4/11/2011 12:03 AM, Jerry Wilborn wrote:
>> > And there is the great fallacy of the internet. Every opinion must
>> be voiced.
>>
>> Ahh, irony.
>>
>> Jerry Wilborn
>> jerrywilborn@gmail.com <mailto:jerrywilborn@gmail.com>
>>
>
> Yes, I realize the irony in having made that statement... :P I made
> it because I'm honestly concerned about what affect internet has had
> on the modern world. Tired, old, discredit crackpot theories can now
> be resurrected and gain a new following on the Internet. New crackpot
> bunkum spreads like wildfire and maintains a following despite being
> discredited (ala the 2012 doomsday). It is now easier to scam people
> or commit fraud selling bunk junk. The level of narcissism on the web
> is seemingly growing now that anyone can jabber away*. The signal to
> noise ratio obviously gets worse and worse because of the amount of
> bad/incorrect information. The level of voluntary sharing that is
> becoming the norm seems to cheapen the concept of privacy.
>
> Yeah, the internet is probably the greatest communications and
> information retrieval tool to have been built, but I'm concerned that
> having given "everyone a voice" may have had deleterious effects on
> that tool.
>
> Or maybe I'm wrong... Or maybe no one cares. Ehh.
>
> J
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