The Internet of People — Milk Challenge, Day 2

Continuing with Day Two of @whatsup's "Milk Challenge;" more about that at the bottom of this post.

What does the Internet mean to you? What is it about?

In many cases, people think of the web as something that's about the enormous fount of information you can find there. Need to know when your favorite restaurant is open? Need to know what Aunt Bertha's crystal punchbowl is worth? Need to know how much it costs to send a package to Argentina?

Supposedly, that's the purpose of the Internet... but is it really?

What about the Internet of PEOPLE?

My grandparents outside their summerhouse, Denmark, circa 1932

One of the things I always liked about @surpassinggoogle and his Teardrops and Marlians projects was the underlying idea that we have plenty of information, but what about the lives of people?

It may be that we often use the Internet to get information, or to "learn something," but when you consider what actually interests most people... human stories are often what tops the list.

Who are the people behind the information we use? Will they be remembered? Does anyone even know what they look like?

Seems we live in an age of de-personalization...

My dad fishing, sometime in the 1930s...

When we used to send snail mail letters to each other, it was a very personal affair. We actually would get a little piece of someone else's life... we could see their handwriting; we could feel the paper between our fingers. If the letters were of a more romantic nature, there might even be a scent, or a pressed flower...

What is email... but the same set of electronic dots and dashes, no matter who created them and how they were sent?

Not suggesting the words aren't personal, but the conveyance sure as shit isn't!

And so, don't we at least owe it to ourselves and to each other to make the Internet more about people and less about cold hard information? I mean, before we — as well — become nothing more than dots and dashes on a screen...

Thanks for reading!

Milk and Taters!

The "Milk Challenge" is the brainchild of @whatsup and you can go read the original post here.

Short version: It's about posting + engagement. One post a day (at least) and 10 comments a day (at least) for seven consecutive days (at least).

Use the tags #milkandtaters or #milkandtators.

Try to keep the general tone light and about something the general social media-consuming public might be interested in.

This bit ▲ is my own add-on... taken from SteemPeak

(Another #creativecoin creative non-fiction post)

Comments, feedback and other interaction is invited and welcomed! Because — after all — SOCIAL content is about interacting, right? Leave a comment-- share your experiences-- be part of the conversation!

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