Internet Anthropology

May 04, 2009 11:38

Lately I've obsessed myself with attempts at getting a better hold on what the Internet is thinking ( Read more... )

myspace, religion, twitter, anthropology, google, facebook

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costumenut May 4 2009, 16:57:09 UTC
It's good to see how rampant racism is on the internet. So now we've narrowed the internet to being a white early adolescent male instead of just an early adolescent male.

So much for the whole "global community" ideal.

I have some theories on the need for humanity to create an "us vs. them" mentality in everything they do, but I really feel like that is the one major social conditioning flaw that we have to overcome to reach our full species potential. I just don't know if we'll ever be able to overcome that.

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roofpig13 May 4 2009, 17:06:26 UTC
The atheists one made me laugh out loud.

Honestly, though, I'm not surprised at any of that. Go humans.

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blue_aardvark May 4 2009, 17:31:58 UTC
It's probably a good thing Google filters out what it consider obscene suggestions. Given the amount of searches related to porn, one shudders to think what those list boxes would contain.

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