The Internet has allowed humanity to experience emotions that most of us would have been unlikely to find elsewhere: the leap of joy when someone near you joins your furry meetup group, the pleasure of stumbling upon the perfect piece of Avatar slash fanfiction. But spend too much time online, and you’re likely to come across less welcome emotions as well. Such as…
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Funny, yet true.
Hi Sephira,
I am writing as a producer for the BBC World Service. This evening our programme, World Have Your Say, will be discussing the issues of the Internet and the changes it has made to culture and society (coinciding with the Internet at Liberty 2010 conference in Budapest). I would be interested in discussing your perspective further in advance of the live broadcast, so if you would like to be involved please just send your phone number to my email address.
Many thanks, Joanna.
Oooh! The BBC!
/ties ascot, drops pants
@Joanna, You didn’t provide an email address
@DDD, this is why you’re banned from England.
That chick from England spelled program wrong…
IT’S A TRAP!
This just spelled out everything wrong with my life for the past 5 years.
::curls into a ball and cries::
3 things seem very wrong with that BBC comment.
1: Producers don’t do research like this, researchers do. Producers have enough other things to do.
2: Researchers for radio and TV give more than a day’s advance notice to potential interview subjects.
3: Someone from the BBC *World* Service wouldn’t say “this evening” without mentioning a time zone, or trying to find out what time zone you are in.
Plus, you know, the BBC wouldn’t try to hook up an interview on an anonymous comments section. That’s the kind of shit NBC Nightly News does.
LMMFAO! This is so freakin funny! Very well written! The wit contain’ed(←inappropriate apostrophe) herein is just too much! This is pure sargasm! LOL And so very very accurate! Excellent read!
Meant to say very well written and illustrated
Fairly well written but perhaps misleading, these are not new emitions or even states of being. All of these things existed before, just not as public as they have become since the Internet. For examples, Fanatics (#2) and Critics (#5) have existed since the dawn of society and the rest have existed in one form or another.
How about unstable emotions due to lack of sleep?
Hi sephira,
Thanks for the article. Stories about internet-related behaviour are interesting, especially when this pleasant to read.
Surely most if not all emoticons have come from the internet
Thanks man for sharing it.
Hi Joanna, luv to make a comment, but I stopped paying TVL
@Matthew: FFS!
Steel doesn’t melt at 1,874,000 degrees Fahrenheit, that’s a typo. It’s 1,874,000 degrees KELVIN. You know it’s melted because it’ll start to smell like coffee and it’ll be hot.
Oh wow, OK this makes a lot of sense dude.
http://www.online-privacy.eu.tc
Klystron you ass turkey. That’s the point, it’s supposed to be wrong.
In the old days, I would have checked to see if that was a real BBC producer or title, even with the stupidly obvious “email me your phone number” part at the end.
But ‘programme’ was spelt the way the Beeb would spell it.
Oh, and I had to LOL at the comment that confused emotions with emoticons.
Pure genius
we *really* need to stop using sarcasm on the internet…sorry. It escapes even the smartest of folk..I venture to say the smarter you are, the more likely you are to not -get-it-.
Just sayin.
maybe a little indicator?
Anyhow. I totally thought this article was about emoticons…its always interesting how even how we chat/type/text has seasonal (lame) fads (trendiness). You should write an article about that Sephira.
I think those last two statements were a perfect example of how sarcasm should be indicated, fyi (unless the point of e-sarcasm really -is- just about starting arguments with people that we’re only sarcastic with because we dislike them to begin with and end with us just making them feel stupid/bad and us of superior intelligence and misunderstood [mock] genius)
Well, the first of the last…I think I actually would be entertained by an article like that–and you should write it.
Haha this is pretty funny and so true. The picture at the top really reminded me of this video too: [www.youtube.com]
@A.S.H. If you’re gauging that revelation upon personal experience, then I have some news that might disappoint you.
@Piter [Quote]Surely most if not all emoticons have come from the internet [/endquote]
No, the smiley was first used extensively in the 1960s and early 70s (note, no apostrophe) usually as a sticker or a clothing patch.