I’m not sure if this is just me, but I’ve been getting more and more frustrated with people in the real world not getting it! In this particular case it, being blogging and the internet community/world that has been building and growing for the last good few years. It’s like the general public around me is completely ignorant of everything and anything online. Still reserved to thinking that if you do anything internet related you’re considered a techy geek. Fuck that shit!

It’s a preconception based on ignorance. I know it’s harsh to use such words but it’s true. I still find it amazing when I mention the word blog and the person looks at me and doesn’t have a clue about what I’m talking about. It’s not like I’m asking them to tell me the difference between PHP and HTML or anything ‘technical’ like that. If I dare mention the internet in any capacity apart from amazon, google and hotmail I’m looked upon as I’m a dredge of society while Gmail and Firefox are effectively words I just made up.

Seriously, it’s the same shitty ignorant and stupid look I get when I mention that I read and love comics but that’s another post for another time. I guess part of the problem is that I’m in a completely different industry to the web development one and therefore we can consider these people as the general public. The thing is it’s not like I’m talking to my grandmother here who’s still in awe about the concept of the telephone, these are computer literate people, who get their news from the net, who buy stuff online, who surf and search the web EVERY single day.

It’s not all doom and gloom however, every once in a while I’ll meet someone who’s actually read the site and tell me they like it, or topics I’ve talked about here get further airtime in some conversations I have with a couple of friends. It’s a slow processes getting people to understand what the internet has to offer them apart from spam, buying shit and downloading porn.