Reasons why the Internet and I have a Love/Hate thing going on...

Like the vast majority of my peers, I occupy a world that is, at least to some degree, defined by the existence and influence of an undefinable entity... a shapeless hive-mind that has made us simultaneously smarter and yet individually less capable than the generations that preceded us. It gave us a tiny world and a huge stage.

By now it is most likely obvious that I am, of course, referring to this.

You see, me and the internet... we have this love/hate thing going on.

I LOVE the idea of "blogging" but I have genuinely HATED every single blog that I've ever read (in fact, I even hate this blog, as I proof-read it to myself)

I LOVE cats.. but I HATE lols.

I LOVE intellectualism... but I HATE anyone who uses that term.

I LOVE viral videos... but I HATE how I'm always the last person to see them.

I LOVE crowd-sourcing and querying the hive... but I HATE every incoherent yet oh-so-adamantly stated opinion that flies freely from the mouths of those that don't have to look you in the face.

I LOVE irony... but I seem to HATE all the people who use it as a neatly-packaged replacement for a personality (read: myself).

I LOVE linux... but one time I told this dude on irc that I used KDE, and apparently that made me a girl, so now I HATE that guy.

I LOVE extended three letter acronyms... but I HATE when people say them phonetically (VOIP is not voyp)

I LOVE streaming... but I HATE buffering.

I LOVE bittorrent... and I really don't have anything bad to say about it.

I LOVE trolling people who use poor grammar... but I HATE myself for doing it.

I LOVE the font helvetica and the word fail... but I HATE anyone who uses either of them frequently.

I LOVE the cloud... but I HATE the ground.

The END.