has really caught our attention.
In his first post, Ebert discusses the benefits of the internet for the lonely people in the world and in the second, he discusses the roots of loneliness and how he can sympathize with everyone who commented and related to his first blog entry.
I only had three words once I was finished reading both posts, and they were "I completely agree."
Think about it. Seriously. Stop and think about the internet and everything technology has made us into over the last 20 years.
What am I doing now? Blogging. Why? To share my thoughts and opinions with the world. To see if there is another person somewhere among the 6.8 BILLION of us who can find a small connection to me and my thoughts. Should this matter to me, or anyone for that matter when we all have other people in our lives that we can have face-to-face conversations with? I mean really, we are all in class together, why should we post this on the "world wide web" when I could clearly express my thoughts while making eye contact with you? Because this occupies our loneliness; the whole interconnected ways of the internet occupy our loneliness and make us feel loved in some moment of time by some stranger 10,ooo miles away.
I feel like everything Ebert said about the connections made should be common knowledge. I feel like these were simple realizations that everyone should make as soon as they experience the power of the internet community. Maybe it's just me, or maybe you have to experience the sense of loneliness to completely understand what I'm saying...
I'll end on my favorite quote from Ebert's second article: "There is no rule that says you must have friends. There is no requirement to be "popular." No one is keeping a scorecard. If living alone makes you happy, you don't have a problem. But if you feel lonely and it's hurtful or bothersome, then obviously you think you have a problem. Only you can say."
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