I'm grateful for Facebook and smartphones for bringing the
Internet to the general population. It's now mostly seen as a
friendly place by the news but it wasn't always. At one time,
the Internet was a place where nerds and weirdos spent hours
glued to monitors in their mother's basements and in seedy
apartments living alone across from a playground hacking into
your bank accounts to steal your money to buy drugs to
distribute to your children so they become sex slaves being sold
to American businessmen on sex cruise ships bound for Korea to
be initiated into devil-worshiping cults that will return to
become politicians and CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies
making infanticides to put into baby bottles being distributed
by fraudulent charities and sent to Africa where the remaining
children will be brought back on Ebola infected airplanes and
sneak into your gated communities to steal your TV, which you
don't want to happen because you need it to watch the news.
Things are better now. I still look at news with a skeptical eye
though as the targets simply keep changing.
