Beyond the Internet?

Well, it has been a while, but not so long that I forgot how to write words using letters. I still have that going for me. These last few months have been extremely busy. I've been learning a lot of facts... maybe not a lot in terms of number...but certainly in terms of size...these facts are so big, in fact, that they will not fit into the internet. Dang. "The internet is big," you say? I agree. Well, think bigger. And then double it.

Do that, and then, ask yourself, what could be so important? The answer to that is almost certainly: nothing. There is no single thing too big for the internet. There is nothing the internet doesn't know, nothing too personal for the internet, nothing too private. There is no emotion that the internet has not felt. It knows nudity, without a doubt, and from a brief survey of Facebook pictures, I would estimate that the internet is well acquainted with beer pong and 80's neon dance parties. But beyond that, take a glance at the wide world of myspace pages, especially those of teenagers, not bands, and you will see their loneliness, fear, anger, and isolation as well as their hope and humor. Just imagine all of the emails that people are sending to one another...emails between relatives, friends, colleagues, enemies, responses to classified ads, craigslist postings, as well as all of the emails that we receive from people we don't know offering to help us improve our confidence AND our love life. We can't imagine it. The internet must not only imagine it, but see it, and remember it. It is our infinite sum: unbelievably wretched and beautiful.

This has a number of statistics about internet usage in the last few years. It is incredible what a powerhouse Facebook is:



And for those of you who don't believe me when I say that the internet is big enough for everything, this video is a good starting point for an internet adventure: