{"id":699,"date":"2006-11-27T22:15:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T05:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2006-11-27T22:17:26","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T05:17:26","slug":"on-the-internet-everyone-sees-through-your-self-loathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/699\/on-the-internet-everyone-sees-through-your-self-loathing\/","title":{"rendered":"On the internet, everyone sees through your self-loathing . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

New contributor Richard Riccelli has already figured out the true<\/i> secret to weblogging: Get somebody else to do it. Watch as he gets me<\/i> to cite this smug essay by Michael Kinsley in Slate<\/i> Magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Poor Joe! Had the World Wide Web driven him crazy?<\/p>\n

If so, we are all crazy now. There is something about the Web that brings out the ego monster in everybody. It’s not just the well-established tendency to be nasty. When you write for the Web, you open yourself up to breathtakingly vicious vitriol. People wish things on your mother, simply for bearing you, that you wouldn’t wish on Hitler.<\/p>\n

But even in their quieter modes, denizens of the Web seem to lug around huge egos and deeply questionable assumptions about how interesting they and their lives might be to others.<\/p>\n

This is strange. Anonymity, for better or for worse, is supposed to be one of the signature qualities of the Web. As that dog in The New Yorker<\/i> cartoon famously says, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The Internet is a place where you can interact with other people and have complete control over how much they know about you. Or supposedly that is the case, and virtually everybody on the Internet is committed to achieving that goal.<\/p>\n

But anonymity does not actually seem to interest many of the Web’s most devoted users. They are the ones who start their own sites, or sign up for MySpace, or submit videos to YouTube. Quite the opposite: The most successful Web sites seem to be those where people can abandon anonymity and use the Internet to stake their claims as unique individuals. Here is a list of my friends. Here are all the CDs in my collection. Here is a picture of my dog. On the Internet, not only does everybody know that you’re a dog. Everybody knows what kind of dog, how old, your taste in collars, your favorite dog food recipe, and so on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s my take: Kinsey’s insufferable vanity is sneering at the insufferable vanities of others. In the end, he is doing what they<\/i> are doing, but Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New contributor Richard Riccelli has already figured out the true secret to weblogging: Get somebody else to do it. Watch as he gets me to cite this smug essay by Michael Kinsley in Slate Magazine: Poor Joe! Had the World Wide Web driven him crazy? If so, we are all crazy now. There is something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-casual-friday","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2160,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2160\/i-may-see-you-on-the-way-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":699,"position":0},"title":"I may see you on the way down","author":"Kris Berg","date":"November 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"At our office meeting this past week, our manager shared this video with the troops. 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