The Internet and words...

I just happened to look at my last blog on here and saw only HALF of it went online! I am finding more and more, the internet is not always your friend!

On the upside, I have been able to get in touch with woofing hosts and house sitting jobs all over the world.  Makes me wonder what people did BEFORE there was an internet.

So much has happened so quickly that it is mind boggling how easily as a species we can adapt to something as not only life altering but reality altering as the internet is! Sometimes it is hard to imagine anymore pounding away on a little old Royal typewriter or writing text over and over because you couldn't just high light and paste!

In school, the entire process of doing research and writing papers is also changing. These days I know that very few students even know what plagiarism is!  They think that if it is online it is all open to be copied and pasted, and with all the law suits flying around with google and Facebook and the outcomes there, who is to say they are wrong? Intellectual property seems to be a thing of the past, almost non existent! It is harder and harder to know if ANYTHING you put out there on line can actually remain your own. I am beginning to think not!

When I was young, I was highly critical of my paintings and some I would throw in the trash.  Someone would fish it out and frame it. This upset me a great deal.  Then someone else pointed out to me, once I brought something into the material world that others could see, it no longer was simply mine anymore, and I think it can be said of what goes on line also.

So in a way, the fact that my blog post looked totally different half posted then it did in it's entirety is not far from the painting pulled out of the trash and hung on a wall.I think it is a case now, of finger's crossed and hoping there are now internet interruptions and that the emoji's are accurate and folks can actually interpret properly what I am trying to communicate.

Perhaps, as one person I heard recently on the radio said, now, writing is even more common place than it was in the past!  The formality of it is not the same level, but the need for it certainly is there!

I wonder if one day, we will end up like the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel, or will reach a point where communication will be far more effective.  Only time will tell however in the meantime, I do hope this site doesn't end up with any more glitches...and yes, I do check for typos!