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Online Businesses are sculpting our culture in new ways. Not all the changes are better, yet some are. Monopolizing is becoming a huge problem. For example if Amazon.com becomes the only book store by putting local brick and mortar book stores out of business, there's going to be giant impacts on the economy by eliminating small businesses, as well as large businesses that can't complete with their online cousins. This could mean our communities won't have nearly as much money or support from the local public. Our schools could go down as well as any other local related economic entity. Monopolizing won't just be something in the physical world, but the online world, which is even bigger. The world wide web is the biggest market in the world and is not only effecting us, the united states, but also effecting any country in the world. Which means that if any company expands on the world wide web they're expanding on the global front. This makes it more likely for a corporation to become an even bigger corporation, and it makes them more likely to exploit poor countries. But what am I saying... They already do, and there's pretty much nothing we can do about it besides stand back and let the fire run out of fuel.
Regardless, the government doesn't need to be taxing us on online purchases. If the started sticking their noses into the web more, we'd all be sucked up, we'd be waiting to be taken advantage of. Ehhh... The internet pie is like Courtney Love, there's plenty to go around. Am I right?... Anyhow, businesses are going to have to integrate, which includes learning how and where and when to advertise--I hate advertisements--, and to whom.
Brings me to my next topic of interest. Have you seen the profiling they're doing on us customers. Seems like every store I go in to now and days asks me if I have their card. Krogers, CVS, the list can go on and on. This only means our children and their children and, heck, even we are going to be challenged more and more. Businesses are going to begin to appeal to everyone personally. That's truly a scary thought, signing online and having pop ups say things based on customer profiling, "Hello Orion, we've noticed you recently bought some preparation H, and we thought maybe we could recommend some other products, or maybe even a proctologist." Honestly, please, I don't need you sticking your nose in places it doesn't belong online businesses, especially up my ass... I'm not in to that kinda stuff, I'd like to consider myself a straight respectable guy. Sign online the next day, BAM more pop ups, "Orion we here you'd like to think of yourself as a respectable kinda guy, and we'd like to recommend this clothing line and these boxers and this cell phone and this coffee and this gun for you to commit suicide when you realize these pop ups will never end."
So as much as I love the online community and just the global network we refer to as the internet, which I really do, I think some shit needs to be fixed and some struggles of power need to be settled. Shit we're the people, and we can make it happen. Businesses flood our inboxes with email, LETS SHOW THEM THE REAL MEANING OF SPAM, TROJAN STYLE. Lock and Stop, that bullshit, from continuing. I've read a few promising respectable intelligent speakers speak on the issue of spam. Some say if we don't fix the problem, it could honestly be them end of the internet; OH MY GOD, I couldn't handle that. I'd have to kill some people if that went down. So spammers... You see what hell you're putting us all through? Do you see that those annoying messages that we must delete really do to us? They make our stomachs turn in weird new ways that no stomach should be forced to turn in, and let me tell you, that 15 seconds it takes to delete those junk emails could have been used to save the rainforest, overthrow the government, or even gamble on the WWW.
Final thoughts on this subject, Don't be stupid, don't respond to chain letters (companies use that to get email addresses), don't download attachments, (viruses, duhhhhhhhh) and most of all, don't sign up or check any boxes on any damn websites, as long as you have the option (I don't know about you, but I don't need a fucken news letter from some stupid website, updating me on their new line of underwear or cars or anything for that matter).
And stay smart, Stay protected(not only applying to internet use), and remember, only you can prevent spam.
Online Businesses are sculpting our culture in new ways. Not all the changes are better, yet some are. Monopolizing is becoming a huge problem. For example if Amazon.com becomes the only book store by putting local brick and mortar book stores out of business, there's going to be giant impacts on the economy by eliminating small businesses, as well as large businesses that can't complete with their online cousins. This could mean our communities won't have nearly as much money or support from the local public. Our schools could go down as well as any other local related economic entity. Monopolizing won't just be something in the physical world, but the online world, which is even bigger. The world wide web is the biggest market in the world and is not only effecting us, the united states, but also effecting any country in the world. Which means that if any company expands on the world wide web they're expanding on the global front. This makes it more likely for a corporation to become an even bigger corporation, and it makes them more likely to exploit poor countries. But what am I saying... They already do, and there's pretty much nothing we can do about it besides stand back and let the fire run out of fuel.
Regardless, the government doesn't need to be taxing us on online purchases. If the started sticking their noses into the web more, we'd all be sucked up, we'd be waiting to be taken advantage of. Ehhh... The internet pie is like Courtney Love, there's plenty to go around. Am I right?... Anyhow, businesses are going to have to integrate, which includes learning how and where and when to advertise--I hate advertisements--, and to whom.
Brings me to my next topic of interest. Have you seen the profiling they're doing on us customers. Seems like every store I go in to now and days asks me if I have their card. Krogers, CVS, the list can go on and on. This only means our children and their children and, heck, even we are going to be challenged more and more. Businesses are going to begin to appeal to everyone personally. That's truly a scary thought, signing online and having pop ups say things based on customer profiling, "Hello Orion, we've noticed you recently bought some preparation H, and we thought maybe we could recommend some other products, or maybe even a proctologist." Honestly, please, I don't need you sticking your nose in places it doesn't belong online businesses, especially up my ass... I'm not in to that kinda stuff, I'd like to consider myself a straight respectable guy. Sign online the next day, BAM more pop ups, "Orion we here you'd like to think of yourself as a respectable kinda guy, and we'd like to recommend this clothing line and these boxers and this cell phone and this coffee and this gun for you to commit suicide when you realize these pop ups will never end."
So as much as I love the online community and just the global network we refer to as the internet, which I really do, I think some shit needs to be fixed and some struggles of power need to be settled. Shit we're the people, and we can make it happen. Businesses flood our inboxes with email, LETS SHOW THEM THE REAL MEANING OF SPAM, TROJAN STYLE. Lock and Stop, that bullshit, from continuing. I've read a few promising respectable intelligent speakers speak on the issue of spam. Some say if we don't fix the problem, it could honestly be them end of the internet; OH MY GOD, I couldn't handle that. I'd have to kill some people if that went down. So spammers... You see what hell you're putting us all through? Do you see that those annoying messages that we must delete really do to us? They make our stomachs turn in weird new ways that no stomach should be forced to turn in, and let me tell you, that 15 seconds it takes to delete those junk emails could have been used to save the rainforest, overthrow the government, or even gamble on the WWW.
Final thoughts on this subject, Don't be stupid, don't respond to chain letters (companies use that to get email addresses), don't download attachments, (viruses, duhhhhhhhh) and most of all, don't sign up or check any boxes on any damn websites, as long as you have the option (I don't know about you, but I don't need a fucken news letter from some stupid website, updating me on their new line of underwear or cars or anything for that matter).
And stay smart, Stay protected(not only applying to internet use), and remember, only you can prevent spam.
posted by Orion M Malhotra at 12:14 PM
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