More Digital Review

George Bernard Shaw said that “Lack of money is the root of all evil.”, and who would disagree with him. A few weeks ago I got an email from More Digital asking me if I'd put an advert on my site for them. It was then I remembered Shaw's saying.

Like anyone who gets an email out of the blue I thought it might be spam, or that Moredigital.com might be a scam. It's important to make sure your business partners have a good reputation. I checked out some reviews, including a few on digitalpoint. Most of the reviews said that working with moredigital was a pleasant experience.

I've found them to be very helpful. It's easy to add their advert, and it was for a reputable company – not dicey. I received my money and that can't be bad.

As well as writing about More digital, I want to say something about Thomas de Zengotita. He is an anthropologist with some very interesting things to say about our current world. He writes that we all face a massive number of options, and being aware of this changes our lives into a performance. Basically, this means our lifestyles and identities are something we choose.

In de Zengotita's book, Mediated, he says that we are now 'surfing the options' of post-modern life. What was previously taken for granted, is now optional. Even our traditions are a choice.

The Internet Culture and The Effect It Brings To People

The Internet culture has not been showing signs of slowing this trend – this fad toward the never ending quest for human communication even to places wherein real human contact is not possible. There are some people who find comfort when they are with their computers – online. Even if face-to-face interaction is not achieved, they still can seek friendship in cyberspace. Virtual friends gather at imaginary meeting places. In these cyber spaces, they interact with and among each other, they open topics for debates, they open themselves to the virtual public. It is no doubt, therefore, that relationships of all kinds are establish because of the Internet. But, the very fact that this form of communication emanates from distant participants, there is a real impact on this.

Because the interaction is no longer face-to-face, there is already lesser social accountability demanded of one who says something rude in an online chat room than of one who offends someone on face-to-face social gatherings. If one person says something awful online, the act would seem nearly free of consequences. The offender need no subjection to emotional discomfort that could possibly arise when the same situation occurs, only face-to-face.