10 things the internet has taught me (614 words)

The internet has taught me a lot factual and nonfactual things in the past couple of years. Mainly nonfactual but I’d be lying if I said it hasn’t changed how I view certain things.

The first big thing that the internet has taught me is to never judge a person based purely off of their twitter, facebook, or instagram page. Because according to my own judgment and statistics, 75% of everything us teenagers post is not usually what were really thinking. Now, if you’re a person who really does, I applaud you, but just remember, don’t depend on people actually listening to what you say. We are human.

2^nd: Thissongissick.com changed my music taste for the rest of my life. I don’t know what else to say other than it’s a site that posts new music from all kinds of different artists every day, it’s pretty neat.

The third thing the internet has taught me, CATS. You either hate them or you really love them. For me, it’s a definite love. I’d consider it one of my favorite pass times. If you look through who I’m following on social media, I guarantee you’ll find multiple strictly cat pages. Not ashamed, apparently they’re trending, considering I see them in plenty of people’s bios. On top of that, they even have their own emoji facial expressions, do you see any with dogs? If that doesn’t make it an official trend, I don’t know what does.

Pronouncing things is the 4^th thing that the internet has (confused) taught me. Is it Gif or Gif?  

5^th: There are so many places cooler than Iowa. Like wow, every time I check pinterest or Tumblr, I find a new place to add to my bucket list. Apparently whenever our state came about, we missed the whole, mountains, or waterfalls, or volcanos, or oceans thing. We kind of missed everything except corn.

The 6^th thing I’ve learned thanks to the internet: Never underestimate the power of fangirls. I’m pretty sure Justin Bieber and One direction would agree with me. There’s also nothing scarier than a massive amount of upset fans, especially beliebers. Anybody remember #cutsforbieber? I belieb that was one of the weirdest, and most confusing hashtag I’ve ever seen, especially being a fan of Justin Bieber.

7^th:   Stumbleapon.com is like a drug, and WILL consume a lot of your time if you let it. I’m saying this as a warning because I don’t think I could count up the hours I’ve spent on it, but it’s definitely a cool site to visit if you’re ever bored.

8^th: Swag is not an adjective. It is something you poses.

I’m going to dedicate the 9^th thing I’ve learned while using the internet is my not so new found respect for Youtube. The app and site has brought Kid Cudi, Chance the rapper, Grace Helbig, Neature walks, Turrets guy, and even Sharkeisha into my life. The site has also prevented me from ever being able to say “I like turtles,” in a normal voice ever again. If you don’t happen to know anything I’m talking about in this paragraph, please, feel free to search any of these terms on youtube.com.

The 10^th and final thing I’ve learned and am going to stress is that you can’t get all of your information on current events from twitter accounts. Trutherbot is not journalism, and in my opinion people shouldn’t ever rely strictly on one place to get all of their information.

Since I shared my own experiences with the internet I’m going to end this with a little advise.

Be aware, be advised, stay open minded, and you’re never fully dressed without a smile. J