Most Internet conversations suck.
You know exactly what I mean. I’m not talking about the frivolous “Ew! My cat just puked a hairball on the carpet” “Ha ha! At least it wasn’t a mouse!” conversations. True, those often suck in their own way, but I’m talking about the conversations that inevitably occur whenever someone expresses a strong opinion on a topic that matters to anyone else in the universe.
Whether it’s on your Facebook, through Twitter, in the comments of a Blog post, an Email List, a Forum, or even just a private email or texting conversation, chances are that at some gut level you hate these electronic conversations, even if they are “mentally stimulating” or “necessary.”
Sure, they can be fun if you are some kind of psycho with a disturbing amount of free time on your supposedly employed hands and a cyber-inhibited sense of decency. But if you have some kind of real life, a job, a family, bills to pay, a biological need to eat, sleep, or egest, then Internet conversations are usually a stressful distraction. You don’t want to get sucked into yet another black hole, but you MUST. RESPOND. TO. THAT. LAST. COMMENT. Real Life be damned! And the next thing you know you too have become a psycho with a disturbing amount of free time on your supposedly employed hands. Continue reading
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