Yesterday, when I was sharing some thoughts on the nature of WordPress Menus and The Customizer I ended up on a tangential series of thoughts on my opinion and perspective on the nature of the social Internet.
Then I cut it if for no other reason that it was off topic.
Anyway, the original content included my thoughts on how I view reactions that we so often see on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Hacker News, Reddit, Imgur, and basically any website that accepts any comments of any type.
To be clear, not all sites are the same and the communities that are around these sites are a little different than others. It’d be wrong of me to generalize all of them into a single category and, honestly, some of them are incredibly welcoming despite many of the ideological and cultural differences that we have.
However (because there’s always a ‘however’, right?).
Though there are some commonalities that exist to some degree, it appears that all online communities seem to exhibit some type of behavior like this:
We’re really good at airing our grievances, and we’re really good at doing so in short, biting ways at the expense of someone else.
And I know that for some people, this doesn’t matter. After all, there’s a case to be made that this is the nature of the human race, but is that a reason that we shouldn’t strive for something better?
I mean, at least on some level?
Anyway, so here’s the short bit of content that I ended up cutting from yesterday’s post. Maybe it’ll resonate with someone else; maybe it’ll sound like a lot of nonsense.
Whatever the case, it’s something that’s slightly out of touch with what I normally write, but something I felt like publishing anyway.
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