Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The Problem with the Internet is You: How to Fix It

There are a myriad of problems people have with what others post on Facebook from the duck faces to the problems no one seems to care about, but I noticed a prevailing problem that has persisted since the Internet's early inception. In the late 1990s, chain letters were a fairly huge problem. Jokes forwarded so many times that the > in front of every line extended the actual message off the screen. There were plenty of hoaxes, false or simply no longer true. And finally pictures passed on that would clog your inbox and use up bandwidth having to download the same email from five different people who have all spread it like a swarm.