Hey, what's up? lol. - Am I the only person who quite dislikes people that start conversations like that? Like, I don't mean in real life (although, thinking about it now, I'd probably not like them very much either.) I mean, people on msn. Like, I swear that's the first way to kill a conversation. Not always.. but majority of the time, if you start like that, the conversation is garunteed to be dead within the next 5 minutes of it starting.
"Hey."
"Hey"
"Sup?"
"Not much.. you?"
"Yeah, not much either."
... the end.
Everytime someone starts a conversation with that, it's just so.. boring. I always try to start a conversation with someone, like.. in the middle of a conversation, give them something to reply to that isn't "sup?" or "how are you?" something far more exciting!
"Do you know what I did this morning? I set my alarm for 6pm instead of 6am and then I was late for work. I had to like, run around and get ready 3 billion times quicker than normal, I even forgot to have breakfast. :P"
"Haha, really? I remember one time.. "
See? That wasn't the best example.. but that is a conversation that's going somewhere! It still might not last very long, but it lasts longer than 2 messages each, for sure.
I guess it also depends on the person you're talking to... some people I talk to on msn, it just doesn't matter what I say to them, the conversation rarely goes very far. But in person, I have amazing conversations with them. Some people you should just not talk to on msn. lolol.
Anyway, that was - believe it or not - not what I was intending to talk about in this entry. Although it's somewhat on topic... sort of...
I was at the shops with a few friends today, and I don't remember how we got on the topic, but we began talking about how the goverment wants to censor the internet.
Now, I know I'm not the only one with a problem with this. For starters, no one I know likes the idea of it. Infact, where are the people that support this idea? Cause from where I'm sitting it sure isn't the majority.
The only people that seem to like the idea of slowing down the internet by upto 70% or some crap to censor majority of sites that are only a problem you're an absolute retard, is well.. people who appear to be absolute retards.
If parents want to stop their kids from seeing.. porn or whatever it is that they're so extremely worried about, they can use filters on their own computer to stop them from being able to access it. And if the government wants to sotp trade of child pornography and other such disgusting things, they should do something proper about it instead of just censoring the internet for the whole country. Why does the whole country need to suffer cause some people are paranoid or on the other hand, need to be locked up?
Not to mention, censoring the internet isn't going to stop the people who really want to do whatever it is they were already doing from doing it anyway. If they want to get past the censor, they'll find a way.
I'm sure there's already people posting things on the internet about how to get past these censors. People do it in China, why wouldn't they do it here?
I haven't read up much about this whole censoring internet issue in a little while but from what I have read, the stuff that is censored, doesn't always make sence - I guess it's like a lot of networks, I know Novell does it a bit. A site may be censored for whatever reason, and a site almost identical to that, isn't censored.
Oh and about that slowing down thing I mentioned earlier? I mean... it's not like we don't already have the slowest internet IN THE WORLD. Slowing it down even more sounds like fun! ... -.-
To me, the idea of censoring the internet, just seems like the governments way of quick-fixing the problems the internet presents in certain instances. It's not the real solution to the problem, but it involves minimal effort and it'll keep the loud minority of people quite for a while. (Until the realise that it's not working.)
Censoring the internet isn't going to solve the real problems on the internet, such as child pornography, tutorials about making bombs and god knows what else. The people that really want to find these kinds of things, will be the people who find ways around the censorship and the rest of us will just suffer even slower internet, the blocking of completely innocent sites, and the general frustration of being the only country in the world apart from China with censored internet.
I don't know about you, but the idea of moving somewhere else if the inernet is censored sounds pretty good to me.
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