You Suck - A Response To Time's Person Of The Year

We are Time's Person of the Year, but are we that interesting? When we blog, post, upload, download, send, share, link, and update, we do indeed control a little part of this world. Is this self-made media or are we just diluting the information and entertainment of our lives in a sea of ourselves?

My Chemical Romance made it big on MySpace. Turns out they suck. For all the hype about MySpace being a bastion for self-expression, it isn't exactly a trove of originality. Chances are the profile that you just spent two hours updating looks like nothing more than a color palette swap of the person you just added as a friend. Same goes for your lists of likes, dislikes, favorite movies, and music. That kid from New Jersey with the blow out haircut, his claim to fame is how much he loves to party and live it up. Check out that Emo kid's profile in your “friends” list, her favorite movie is Requiem for a Dream — Guaranteed. Go ahead, check it out for yourself.

You may have recently updated a Wikipedia article, which begs the question, who made you the authority? The idea of an open, editable, constantly growing encyclopedia is a great idea on paper. But when budding academics use that site, and that site only, as reference when writing college papers, we may be in trouble. There are great articles on Wikipedia, and some quality referencing and sourcing, but given the nature of the free form elements of that site, there are bound to be discrepancies with the truth. And there is bound to be a lot of bull. When someone says “It's true, I read it on Wikipedia”, it is advisable to end the conversation.