The internet is everywhere, but there was a time when it wasn’t and that time is recent enough that there are people around right now who remember a world without it. At the same time, there are also people around who have had it as a part of their lives from the time their mother handed them her smart phone to quiet them in the grocery store when they were just babes riding along in the grocery cart. People who use the internet come in all ages and that will be true for a long, long while. What will change is that as time marches on, we will eventually be in a world where young and old alike were born into the internet. People born into this kind of technology tend to look at it differently than those who were not. That is, of course, a statement that could be amended in a number of ways if one takes into account the hundreds to thousands of variables inherent when dealing with humans. Each person is so unique in their ideas and interpretations, each one having a different take on things, it is truly fascinating. What a boring world this would be if we were all the same, all in agreement all of the time. And so I ponder the lie of the internet or rather, the liars of the internet, in no other aspect of life is it so easy to lie.
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