24
Jul
2009
Sad & Lonely People Need Lives
I always thought I was safe here at The Parade from the headaches caused at work (i.e. the Planet Half-Life Forums), but it’s the Internet, you’re not safe anywhere. I’m all for people disagreeing with my opinions, this is a free society (unless you’re visiting from China or something), so by all means, disagree and state your points. But people that find it necessary to get into fights over the Internet, let alone on some obscure personal blog found by some obscure RSS feed or something, are just sad.
Now I’ll admit, once upon a time I was like that. I was an angry little 14 year old once too, and I’d get into fights with text on the screen coming from some other anti-social little 14 year old. But then something happened… I grew up. No longer do I find it necessary to go to forums, IRC channels, or today’s new blogs to fight with people. That’s why I started The Parade. It was simply to be able to rant, post my opinions, or whatever and not have some little piss ant tell me how wrong I am, that I should grow up, and that I don’t know what I’m talking about. Here, of all places. At most I’ll get 2 or 3 dozen people visiting the site a day, most of whom are either coming from Wikipedia links or people I know clicking it off of my MSN status or Facebook page, so it’s exceedingly rare, but I guess it was bound to happen.
Lately, I’ve been trying to get rid of “john,” someone who made up a fake name and an obviously fake e-mail address (really, who could have been lucky enough out of millions of people to register “john@hotmail.com,” unless he [or she] is really that old) simply to tell me I was wrong about Michael Jackson. Time after time I’d respond to his grammatically incorrect comments, and time after time he’d come up with something else he’d call “proof” to show me how wrong I really was. So I told him (or her, I know one or two girls who wouldn’t be above going this far to argue with me for ‘ole time sake) that I was “fucking sick and tired of hearing about MJ,” and amongst other things I didn’t care. Guess what. “john” replied! He or she told me that “you seem to be getting agitated, you don’t see me getting that way. Grow up.” This person who comes to a scantly updated website who claims not to be a Michael Jackson fan daily to post arguments supporting him thinks someone else needs to grow up?
Well, “john,” and to everyone else who spends more time at a computer fighting with people then they do interacting with people outside of their basement, I have grown up. The only reason I replied to “john” is because, well, this is my site, it’s my duty to interact here. I don’t sit at my computer hitting the refresh button for “john” to respond, I go about my day at work, or spending time with my beautiful girl friend, or going out with my buddies for whatever activities seem fun at the time. If I want to get into a debate, I’ll do it face to face with someone, because people aren’t made out of electronic components with an LCD monitor for a face. The sooner people like “john” realize that, the sooner the obesity rate in North America will go down and people like me who work on the Internet can go to work without dreading what idiotic petty arguments people are going to engage in. So “john,” grow up. Go outside, I’m sure it’s a beautiful day! If you don’t have any friends to go have fun with, then go talk to your parents or siblings at least. Computers aren’t analogs for human beings. I learned that, why can’t you?
