Thanks to Web 2.0, I get this uneasy feeling that advances in Internet technology is only contributing to increased amounts of internet procrastination, affecting especially those budding minds of young college students. Under the broad umbrella term of interactive websites, those that above all focus their free time on forming links and relationships among youngsters or students, have become increasingly a magnet for procrastinating teenagers (e.g. Me) and a source of unproductivity. (See this list for some of the culprits.)
It is undeniable that not all of these sites do only harm. LJ, Xanga and other blogging sites provide a completely novel way for young people to vent, to express, or to opine, not that many of them do more than rant randomly about how life sucks (again, e.g. Me). However, it isn't the first time that I'm complaining about how some people profile themselves so freely on the no-longer-neutral Internet.
"...telecommunications and cable companies will be able to create toll lanes on the information superhighway... This strikes at the heart of the free and equal nature of the internet."
Not only that, but has anyone any idea what others do with their profiles? Perhaps this would scare you off. Or maybe you'd be indifferent. I opt to proceed with caution. No unrestrained advertising of personal information when the NSA is snooping around for my every move. By adding online social networking data to its phone analyses, the NSA could connect people at deeper levels, through shared activities, such as taking flying lessons. - New Scientist
Maybe an American is willing to give up some privacy in the name of National Security, but to me, they're just masking a non-stop slippery slope all the way back to 1984. Perhaps it's my panicky self after watching 24, but I'm not surprised if the PRC equivalent isn't worming its way into HK networks. Not even if they've already established the foundations for a Great Firewall - HK.
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