Omegle

I really like Omegle. It's a very simple website really, and it has a big problem with trolls, but for all that it's still the best place to have a conversation with someone who you may have very little in common with. That's something we really don't do much. Most people we talk to and socialise with live in the same area, are the same age, have a similar lifestyle, have similar social economic standing, belong to the same cultural back round, ect. Omegle gives an opportunity to talk with those who may be very different, and whom we would not have an opportunity to meet otherwise. President Obama says "what holds us together is stronger than what pulls us apart" and that's probably true, but it's worth remembering that what hold us apart is what makes other people interesting.

Well I've created a Blog

Let's see how this goes, hopefully I have enough to say to justify this blog. I guess for my first post I'll recite a little rant, I had earlier about internet newspeak.

I just hate talking in internet shorthand, It feels wrong to talk in a way that really has no purpose other than to be exclusionary to anyone other than the primarily, Caucasian, upper class, American, people who created most of that newspeak language. It's obnoxious, elitist, and most significantly of all, makes us all sound much more similar, masking our individuality by predestining what terms we would use to describe things. I'd like to think I have enough intellect to not need linguistic crutches to communicate.

Not a bad start.