Net Improvement

Looking forward to the weekend, and here’s a little bit I wrote the other day:

 

How often have we turned and walked away

Pondering the thing we meant to say

And looking back with retroactive dread

Upon the words we actually said

 

Things are different now in cyberspace

Because we are not meeting face to face

So we can think a bit before we write

We mostly don’t, but nonetheless, we might

 

While scrolling through the comments on the screen

So many are so ignorant and mean

False assumptions, hate and blatant lies

The trick is to compose a good reply

 

“Fuck you, retard!” sounds pretty good at first

But, out of all our options, it’s the worst

A lot of people complain about the  content on the internet, particularly on facebook, but, you know, we all do it.  GIGO,  wherever you go, you take yourself.  The internet is not some monolithic entity, it’s just a composite of all the people  on  it and hooooo boy, there are some weird ones.

Basically, I think everybody should up their game just a little bit – the way that in a face to face conversation, most people think for half a second before they open their mouths,  give it ten seconds before you type out your reply.  5 more to reread it quickly before you hit send.

The world, or at least the internet, will be a better place.