It isn't the fact that I can talk to my friends around the world, face to face, for free. Or that, thanks to my smartphone, I never get helplessly lost any more. Or that it can make Pinkberry appear at my door as if by magic. Those things are great, but they're not the thing I'm talking about.
What amazes me about the internet is how quickly it's become a record of our human experience.
Think about it! The internet contains so much of our lives:
- Facebook pages, to show the scenes and major events of a person's life
- Twitter pages, made up of glimpses into a million tiny moments in human history
- Blogs, curated stories of a person's life or business
And that isn't even the half of it!
If some day, one hundred years from now, some History student somewhere wants to write a paper about popular culture in 2013, all she'll have to do is run a few searches and she'll find personal reactions to everything from Pulitzer prizewinners to Kim & Kanye. Isn't that kind of incredible?
Which brings me to this new little blog. What's my motivation for creating this little corner of the internet? Well, if such a massive global archive is being created for the future out of our stories, thoughts, and voices, you had better believe I want to be a part of that history.
Let's write a story!
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