After that uncharacteristically upbeat blog entry yesterday, it occurred to me that if I were just randomly searching for stuff to read on the internet, I would never ever find that entry with all its positive tags. Not in a million years. The thing about the internet is that your experience therein is entirely shaped by what you search for.
For example, when I go to Youtube, do I search for love stories and happiness and hearts and flowers? Not really. Sick puppy that I am, I’ll type in stuff like, “Serial Killers”, “Cults”, “True Crime” or things of that nature. Aside from the occasional cute kitten video I see when I click on a Facebook link, Youtube for me is a source of warped and twisted behavior.
On Google, I’ll search for things I’m interested in, of course. But I suppose that means I’m not exposed to things I could very well become interested in, but have yet to hear about. I find that to be kind of sad.
I also notice that I tend to gravitate toward about 10 sites that I’ve come to know and trust over the years. So a lot of my internet experience is shaped by their bias as well as my own. I’ve found a cyber comfort zone. I’ve created my own little cyber reality.
But that makes me wonder . At what point will my creation turn around and start shaping who I am? Maybe it already has. Dun dun dunnnnnn…
Everyone’s internet encounter is completely unique to his or her personality. I don’t know about you, but that makes me wonder what it is that I might be missing.
Like yesterday’s blog entry.
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