I Don't Want to Be an Internet Person

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The Internet Isn’t the Sideshow Anymore — It’s the Main Event

Billionaires are Twitter people. Little kids are online. Your grandma is online. The internet is simply more powerful and more arresting than anything that can be arranged in the physical space. What is the alternative? The kids will go to online raves. Eventually, we will stop pretending that the internet is a sideshow and that our real culture, the better culture, is somewhere else.

Ginerva Davis, I Don't Want to Be an Internet Person source