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In Which Druzba Lectures The Innanet

Hey Internet, I want to point out something I thought you knew already.

Just because I say or post something on my Web site, it doesn’t make it automatically true.

I could post cute pictures of my daughter for the public to see (something I don’t believe in) and you might be tempted to leave a comment telling me that I must be a wonderful dad. I’m sorry, but that wouldn’t mean a thing. My daughter’s inherent cuteness has nothing to do with my parenting skills.

In the same vein, simply because I, or anyone else who has a domain, might seem to labor over a “difficult post” and pour emotion out all over the screen, doesn’t mean that I’m being honest with myself or with my readers. It might be a way for me to attract attention, sympathy, or what-have-you. You don’t know me (unless you actually do know me) and so, you don’t know what strange motivations I might have for saying what I say.

Point being, the anonymous nature of the Internet allows me to portray myself as I want and, unfortunately, or I suppose, fortunately for some people, strangers are indiscriminate with what they read. I’ve found it to be a problem in the Information Age, in education, and with users of the Internet in general. People have to check their sources, get information from multiple locations, ask follow up questions. Unfortunately it’s too easy not to do that along the way because it slows you down.

You might respond, “Well, of course! I read blogs for the author’s take on things. I understand they are one-sided and I’m OK with that.”

Well, that’s great. Just understand that, like with real life, there are lots of people in the world who seek attention in different ways, who carefully portray themselves to be someone different online than they are in real life, who maybe don’t exactly tell the full story about themselves, or maybe they have a specific goal they want to achieve with their site like gathering friends or getting hot dates. I don’t know what to tell you, Internet. People have some interesting ways about them yet, for some reason, a lot of that seems to be ignored when people “go online.”

I’m not so into my Web site being a public space for people to read about my divorce and the reason behind it. I don’t want my life to be a soap opera. I just want to move on. If you want to ask me about it, please feel free. I may or may not tell you. I generally prefer to share those sorts of things with people I know.

• October 5th, 2005
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