Posted by alexandra_k on January 16, 2015, at 20:15:41
Hello. Are you okay? I wish you would post that you are okay, at least. I worry that you aren't okay.
Are you tired of us? Do you get tired of minding this site? Are you retiring any time soon? I don't even know how old you are... Do you want to retire from here?
Do you think if you don't post then we'll get bored and go away?
The internet has changed, huh. From it mostly being... Military. Then academic. Now every 13 year old has themself a blog etc. The things you can type into google... If you feel like reading what all the 13 year olds have to say about everything... People getting paid to copy and paste other peoples posts... People paying google to appear higher up google rankings. Google monitoring all our searching and our purchasing and leaving us logged into everything always... 'Purchase now' buttons disguised as 'close' buttons... Things have surely... Uh... Progressed.
It is becoming increasingly clear to me that... Something like opting out is the only defense. I'm still fairly amazed... At how we've all been convinced or scammed somehow into carrying around a surveilance device... But carrying them most of us do. And you can't do anything without a mobile number and an email address these days. Government services here simply will not deal with you if you don't provide them a mobile number, at least. I don't suppose it has to be a smart phone, but hey, if they don't get my information out of my smart phone they will only be getting all my information out of what other people have stored about me / for me / on my own behalf...
I know it would be paranoid to think that anybody is tracking me... Too much information not enough time. No reason for them to have inclination. But if anybody ever was inclined... Perhaps because someone wanted to discredit me in the public's eyes or whatever... Whatever whatever... People could find most things in not very much time at all. Thinking in the future... All those naked photos of 13 year olds or whomever... That they thought they were taking just so they could check out how their *ss looked from the rear or whatever... uploaded to the clouds automatically... stored there forever... Until some day when they are trying to make judge. Or... Whatever.
Anyway... Internet, huh.
Can you say that you are okay, at least? Say something about... What / how you think about things... About here... Now?
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