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"Microsoft, IBM, AOL and their cohorts like to trumpet the "global village" that computers and the Internet have brought about. Despite their bold headlines and quick-cut video clips, this global village remains the Atlantis of the computer-age. In a village, everyone would find a way to communicate in order to survive, in order to live. We aren't communicating or coming closer as a world; we're sitting alone -- in our underwear, pale and eating Ring Dings -- in front of a gently humming computer, looking at pictures of the world, attempting to communicate with nameless, faceless strangers who are doing the exact same thing. That's not a village; that's solitary confinement."

*points* Paragraph from the reading I hafta do for CCS by tomorrow. I disagree with that on so~ many levels. You are not nameless, faceless strangers. I know you all have lives outside the net. I know all your real names, even tho I call you by your net names. I have faces to put to these names. I see your creativity, artistic or literary or design-wise... More than anything tho, I can see your feelings and emotions or whatever, specifically love. How is that a 'nameless, faceless stranger'?

I have great problems with that reading. They'd better not all be like this.

edit = "Write in your journal 50-100 words about your experiences of websites, newsgroups and the Internet, addressing the communication focus expressed in this reading."

*rubs hands in glee* >3 I get to openly disagree with the reading~!