I'm a journalism student and there is much talk about how we can not trust people on the web. Just wondering...what are your thoughts? (is it just insider jargon?)
I think it's a good practice to trust until given reason not to but as new information is exposed about internet stuff, I have to ask a question or two now and then.
I asked my internet penfriend about that and he said that trust is a universal entity which is easily betrayed, yet should be cherished once earned, and if violated, then should be reciprocated through faith.
That all sounded pretty good to me, because after all, he's a master teacher who I've been exchanging emails with for two years and I hang on every word he says.
Then yesterday I found out he's really a 15 year old girl.
rhodester: Ouch! Yes, that's the sort of thing I'm talking about. The blogging world is a new and unsure landscape. Who are we really building relationships with? Should we press on, nonetheless? Do blogrelationships help or hurt us? Etc.
I can't help it jac, but everytime someone tells me, now, that I have to trust them, I somehow end up looking at them sideways: like....why is it you want me to trust you? Call it a little bit of experience or a little bit of experience....
Can we each trust the other here and now as we respond? What are our motives for responding and for our particular takes on the question? Fear is the mindkiller. Researching an opinion or supposed fact is smarter than dismissing it for fear it "might" be BS or a 15 year old giving you philosophy lessons... And who is to say that just because she is fifteen she knows not the truth of the world or that she cannot teach us about life and give us new perspectives on thoughts we seem to relegate to adulthood?
Dear poetryman: I do not trust the MSM and I recognize that a 15-year-old girl can has as much wisdom as an 80-year-old crone. I’m quite sure she could have as much wisdom about the world or that she can teach us (or remind us) about life and give us new perspectives on thoughts we seem to relegate to adulthood, as you say. What I am wondering, however, is how much can we trust Internet connections? Simply put~~on the Internet (go figure?). I know what I know and I know that we can’t just blindly trust. We can appreciate but we must always be ready for a line of shit to present itself after we've invested our entire life. That's just the way it is.
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I am a trusting person about most things most all the time, and I have no desire to be otherwise. I'm careful, but so far, unscarred by the Internet.
We have to trust to know... or you will never know. Will we ?
All are assumed innocent until proven guilty. I mostly trust people.
Thanks all for your responses!
I think it's a good practice to trust until given reason not to but as new information is exposed about internet stuff, I have to ask a question or two now and then.
Thanks again!
FrenchIndian
I asked my internet penfriend about that and he said that trust is a universal entity which is easily betrayed, yet should be cherished once earned, and if violated, then should be reciprocated through faith.
That all sounded pretty good to me, because after all, he's a master teacher who I've been exchanging emails with for two years and I hang on every word he says.
Then yesterday I found out he's really a 15 year old girl.
rhodester: Ouch! Yes, that's the sort of thing I'm talking about. The blogging world is a new and unsure landscape. Who are we really building relationships with? Should we press on, nonetheless? Do blogrelationships help or hurt us? Etc.
What ever the case, trust is the key.
You don't trust...you will never know.
Yes, sad to say that there is every chance of getting betrayed and hurt.
I can't help it jac, but everytime someone tells me, now, that I have to trust them, I somehow end up looking at them sideways: like....why is it you want me to trust you? Call it a little bit of experience or a little bit of experience....
There are many frauds.
Can you trust the MSM? :>/
Can we each trust the other here and now as we respond? What are our motives for responding and for our particular takes on the question? Fear is the mindkiller. Researching an opinion or supposed fact is smarter than dismissing it for fear it "might" be BS or a 15 year old giving you philosophy lessons... And who is to say that just because she is fifteen she knows not the truth of the world or that she cannot teach us about life and give us new perspectives on thoughts we seem to relegate to adulthood?
Dear poetryman: I do not trust the MSM and I recognize that a 15-year-old girl can has as much wisdom as an 80-year-old crone. I’m quite sure she could have as much wisdom about the world or that she can teach us (or remind us) about life and give us new perspectives on thoughts we seem to relegate to adulthood, as you say. What I am wondering, however, is how much can we trust Internet connections? Simply put~~on the Internet (go figure?). I know what I know and I know that we can’t just blindly trust. We can appreciate but we must always be ready for a line of shit to present itself after we've invested our entire life. That's just the way it is.
oh.. my.. it was a joke. But I'll bet you all KNEW that, and now you're getting my goat, huh?
clever, clever people
No rhodester, I wasn't fooling. I did not think you were telling a joke. I guess, in fact therefore, you got my goat.
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