How to piss PPC off

music: Soulfly - Mars
mood: not enough caffeine

I have got to stop browsing MySpace, Blogger, and LJ. (See previous reaction). I'm coming to the conclusion that the Internet is being taken over by whiny emo kids.

It's sad, really. (Try to imagine this next part being spoken in a cranky old lady voice.) I remember back in the day when the only people you'd find in a chat room were articulate computer geeks. I remember the days before "l3375p34|<" and "txting". I remember real conversations on Usenet and IRC. I remember the days before everyone had a website.

It occurred to me the other day that this batch of kids born around 1990 and after don't know life without the Internet. I remember when if you wanted to do some journaling you'd go out and buy a real bound paper diary or, at the very least, a cheap spiral notebook.

I'm pretty sure I've mused about the early days of the Internet before, but these days I'm annoyed by a) people who pretend they have some kind of mental illness ("i'm OCD cuz i like candy n i haterz dirt lolol!") and b) people who really have mental illnesses and don't do anything about them except whine ("i wish i was dead omgwtf!").

I guess I'm bitter. Having dealt with real, actually-diagnosed-by-several-doctors mental illness my whole life (and having dealt with the effects of untreated mental illness in a family member), I take offense. And frankly, I don't want to hear how depressed some upper-middle-class kid is because his parents bought him the $1200 Alienware PC instead of the $2500 Alienware PC. I don't want to hear how some single mom former teen-pregnancy posterchild can't move out of her parents' house because she can't find a boyfriend who's willing to work so she can stay home and eat marshmallow fluff straight from the jar all day and watch Maury reruns and continue to ignore her child.

There's no personal responsibility in America anymore. I wonder if it's this bad in other countries?
PikaPikaChick on 06.29.06 @ 08:02 AM CST [link] [No Comments]