I’m bored With the WWW

The Internet is overwhelming now. I’ve moved from enjoying the innovation to being mainly indifferent.

Many shops have moved on line, which stops you meeting with friends for a shopping trip, having lunch and actually walking while you shop.

On line you browse 200 pages of mainly tat now we’ve left the EU. The quality on Amazon tanked within a year. There is still some very good stuff of course and Amazon is a blessing for many ordinary items nowadays. If we can’t get a new bin for the car today Amazon it will be.

I could go on for hours about how overwhelming the information is, but you know, besides that’s not the problem.

However, with even rather pathetic games on line, they want a fortune a month rather than letting you buy it. It’s very expensive and ongoing.

Plus trying to get through game levels can cost hundreds in a month of you’re not careful.

You can’t trust what you see

Even before AI we discovered that the media and politicians aren’t the only people whose relationship with the truth is somewhat vague.

You only have to read the arguments on social media to know that truth is spelt ‘o p i n i o n’, unless you genuinely know and then you’ll be called a liar, or some other form of the million insults available.

Too many influencers

Not enough working on world peace.

The pressure not just to look good, but to buy buy buy, or follow follow follow, is immense. It’s why we lose days of our lives staring at screens.

Intrusion

The Internet is in every corner of our lives now. When I went on to Amazon last night to find said rubbish bin, I was asked if it was for my mini. Amazon knows exactly what car I drive. I don’t know how.

The only thing I could find that I’d bought for a car was a sun shield for our old Puma, nothing for the Mini. Apparently it may be from another website where I shopped that passed on the information. But I don’t recall buying anything for the Mini.

Again we know all this.

I wonder though, was the Louvre so easily broken into because the plans are all on line and AI told them the best approach and time, plus pointing them at a good haul?

I have no idea but I do ask myself if AI would say “I’m calling the police that’s a potential crime”, in response to a request of “what’s the easiest way to get a few million?”

“Hang on sir I have a useful map and some handy suggestions. Are you okay with high ladders and the potential of prison?”

Hacking

The effects of which are reaching right in to our lives now. I rarely shop on line since the Marks and Spencer hack. I closed the account. I will go to the store. I try to keep it to Amazon.

Credit card companies have excellent security nowadays, better to go to the shop and try to minimise what’s known about you.

So the internet may put the high street right yet.

Not altogether negative

I do like some sites, but oddly, I’m bored with searching on line now. I prefer being out there in life

We cannot forget though what a blessing the internet is to those with disabilities, those afraid to go out, those alone, and the elderly who can use it.

My groups are on line and I wouldn’t have them without it. I know many more lovely people because of it. I can keep in touch all over the world, as you guys know.

Nothing is all bad. Really only humans are, but certainly not all of us either.

Perspective is everything and it is the humans we need to control because some of us don’t choose the way of the light, and right. Those who do are the solution to so much.

Happy Sunday everyone.

Best love

Amorah – Deb