I found this whole thing to be kind of bizarrely worded, like a cry from a butthurt teenage blogger honestly. I feels like this touches on so many points, and for someone who has been consistently being involved with the internet since elementary school it’s hard to choose just a few.
“Marketing still makes it harder to talk”
While I agree that it’s really annoying to wade through countless ads and marketing schemes online, the internet and content posted on it kind of costs money to keep up, so that money has to come from somewhere to let us easily and freely access the internet. #58, “Quit fracking our lives to extract data that’s none of your business and that your machines misinterpret.” sounds extremely childish to me, as much as I personally agree. Using the internet is a choice, and I think it’s fair to assume that using a public space means that anything you put there isn’t totally private, whether you believe it to or not. The internet is a pretty give and take experience, for better or worse, and in order for it to be open and free there has to be some compromise.
The whole section on apps is a little ??? to me, as the writer doesn’t seem to take into account apps that connect directly with content sharing websites, like Instagram, Tumblr, Youtube, etc. The internet is still very much there, except now it’s portable and the ability to share experiences and content is even more accessible, and it makes it even easier to communicate with those all over the world and share ideas through chatting apps that work just like texting. I know lots of people that have created their own apps just because of how easy it is to spread your creations to a wider audience, and otherwise wouldn’t do something like this. I’d argue that if anything, apps bolster connectivity and creativity.