internet as a tool

People plus internet plus attention

The internet is still very new. People plus the internet plus attention is something humans just invented late last century. How are we doing?

Equalizing everyone’s amount of caring about each other person is not why we made the internet, which has so far been more of a creative medium, but I keep hearing about people feeling bad comparing themselves to what they’re seeing online. The people they’re comparing themselves to often report feelings of hollowness if they invest too much of themselves on the internet.

It feels good to be part of a viable community that is in good standing with society and Natural Law standards. That’s where most people tend to really want to matter, I think.

Online communities are getting more deceptive. So far, they can’t substitute for kindly beating hearts encountering one another in a room or other close proximity.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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Internet addiction

I’m never online in my head. I experience myself in the room even when I’m on a screen.

I noticed in the 2010s that I’d been “storing my ego” online somewhat, as I put it, just enough that I realized it wasn’t working well for me, and the research being published at the time was bearing that out as well.

I used to speculate about what happens when most people start picturing various internet avatar pics when they think of a person they know, which did happened in the early days of the internet on message boards and so forth, but usually with strangers. What was it going to do to our brains if we started doing that with most everyone else?

By a certain point, I’d concluded that it would probably tend to make us feel vaguely anxious.

So I reoriented my perspective on the internet so that I was using it as a tool to do various things I wanted to accomplish rather than some kind of place to store my ego.

I really enjoy it.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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