The 2 Deadly Sins of the Internet

Any time I go through the internet seeking more knowledge, something miraculous happens. I see answers that don’t make sense to me as to why they were posted. I have 2 main pet peeves when it comes to the internet and I’ll explain why these two pet peeves make sense.

The first pet peeve of mine is when people answer on a question forum, to those that are not familiar with Yahoo Answers and such, these are little communities where you can ask your legitimate question and someone should be able to answer it for you. This is great because out of all the billions of people on Earth, at least one person is bound to know the answer to your question. What’s my issue with this? Sometimes I see answers that should be deleted. For example, “Oh, I don’t know, sorry”. Why would you put that? If you don’t know the answer to a question, why would you want to put a comment like that? This to me is a deadly sin of the internet.

The second sin of the internet, so far, is when people ask a question and then someone tries to answer it, but they have absolutely no idea what they’re saying, leading to bad advice. Now, I’ve given some bad advice and I acknowledge that, nobody’s perfect, but I still believe that anything is possible with technology as long as you put enough time into it. Keep in mind technology isn’t perfect so each senario is different. Another issue I have with this is that they want to give a major, un-needed remedy to the simplest things.

Now, the reason why I believe these are rational pet peeves is because when I look at these, I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking, “Wow…these people should shut their mouths”. Course, I shouldn’t be talking, but at least I try to reason through the situation, not just say something completely asinine. I’m sure that the aliens are looking down on us and thinking, “Wow, what are we going to do with them” because since those comments are out in the open for billions to see, that automatically stereotypes us humans as idiots. And let me not even mention the furutre robots.

In conclusion, and I say this to myself too, when putting text online, be aware that if you put that on, everyone will be able to see it. And that’s not something that you can undo. Keep using the internet, but be careful what type of content you put on it.

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