Zombies

Now this might be a little dicey. It’s connected somehow that I haven’t quite figured out yet, but bear with me and hopefully I can tie it together by the time I get to the end LOL.

Y’all remember that movie called The Net, with Sandra Bullock? She played some kinda computer wiz named Angela Bennett, who worked from home and pretty much hated to leave her house. That is, until she goes on this week-long vacation to Cozumel, where she is robbed of all her identification and this guy tries to kill her for what he thinks she knows about this software program. She’s only allowed back into the U.S. after she goes along with everyone’s assertions that she is this other woman, Ruth Marx, and upon her return, finds out that everything in her old life has been erased and everyone believes that she really is this other woman. Throughout the course of the movie, people are constantly looking shit up in their computer databases and online, and of course, because the bad guys own the software, the internet and everything on it, they are able to make everything say whatever they want it to. Because Angela was basically a recluse, she had nobody to vouch for her, with the exception of the one guy, who obviously had to die LOL. In the end, her genius trumped their genius so she got her life back and all was well that ended well.

I had seen the movie before, but on July 7, 2012, after having so many shitty “information” experiences, having had my identity stolen, my bank account compromised……. That shit really hit home. I seriously am thinking about divesting from the internet LOL. I aint talking about disappearing from it, just not allowing it to host my existence. I’m old school and paper has always given me comfort, so I tend to keep hardcopy records of important things, but what about the sentimental stuff? Like pictures. Nobody makes prints anymore. I mean how many of us, right now, if Facebook went down for good would be lost? You have 1,017 pictures on your profile and Facebook is the ONLY place you have them, because you deleted files somewhere else to make space for other shit and figured its all good, they’re on my Facebook. (I mean seriously, do people even invest in memory cards anymore?)

Which brings me to my next point…

Have y’all seen this?

Disclaimer: I am not an expert in American history, and things sometimes get by me, so by no means do I claim to know this for a fact but………………WTFITBS??? LOL

Being that Im NOT an expert in American history, when I saw this floating around Facebook, my initial thought was Wow. That’s crazy. I said if I didn’t know this, a lot of other people probably didn’t either. Let me repost it. Educate the people LOL. But then I thought better of it. The more I looked at the so-called “original” offering and the statement made about it, it just didn’t make any sense to me. Now while I did hear tale that the MODEL for the statue of liberty was a black woman, as far as I am aware, the statue of liberty was never about no freeing of the slaves – it was about the welcoming of immigrants, hence the inscription (“Give us your tired, your weak…” blah, blah, blah). And not for nothing, (I’m also not an expert in Photoshop or digital imagery) but that looks like an actual PICTURE of a black woman, ashed to look like a statue, that somebody superimposed onto the picture. Now I assert AGAIN, I don’t know for a fact that this isn’t true, however, I spent a good amount of time looking for evidence and could find nothing supporting this claim, so I have decided FOR MYSELF (LOL) that this is some bullshit somebody with an axe to grind and too much time on their hands concocted to stir up some shit. If anyone has any information to the contrary, send it my way (doctordig9@gmail.com) and I will gladly recant.

But that wasn’t really where I was going.

I’m not gonna post it because I don’t want to perpetuate it any further but… Someone on my friends list reposted a screenshot image of some girl’s stats that explicitly detail how she went out the night before, went home with some random guy and raw-dawged it (that means had unprotected sex, for those of you who didn’t own shell toes before 2005 LOL), followed by a second stat that (in my own words) says “Yes, I’m HIV positive, but oh the fuck well, his fault. Now off to find me another dumb ass.”

*sigh*

Now like many, my initial reaction was WTF? But it was a Facebook profile, pic and all, so I said let me look her up. I enter her name and instead of an actual profile (which I probably coulda found, if it still exists, had I continued to dig), I found a private group, created in support of her. According to the statement on the group wall, this girl has been the target of somebody’s malicious smear campaign, and that the over 1,000 members of that group are fighting for her truth. Though the individual allegedly responsible was not named, the statement said the girl was NOT HIV positive and that at least one other person had been targeted previously, in the same manner, less successfully.

Now I don’t know this chick, but my point is, dude don’t either (which he, himself, stated in the thread). What would make a grown ass man repost some shit like this without knowing it to be fact? I mean, were it true, it might be one’s duty to put people on notice that bullshit like this is going on (we know it happens) and if there were no real person associated with the accusation, it could be done as sort of a PSA. Clearly we don’t live in a day and age where fucking on the first night is recommended, and doing so without the proper protection is just foolish. But you got this girl’s picture and name alongside this mess and you don’t even know this girl. Why would you help somebody spread what could be just a vicious lie, ruining this chick’s life? The person who started the [alleged] rumor is a douche, but you are no better for reposting the shit. It only took me bout two clicks to find that group, so its evident that you didn’t even look. People on the page “don’t she know she can go to jail for that?” and “that’s just nasty” calling the girl all out her name. Really? All y’all drinking the kool-aid.

And it got me to thinking about the movie again (aha! There’s the correlation!)

Facebook and computers in general rule the world. If you look something up in a database, you automatically believe what you find, even if an actual person is standing in your face, telling you its wrong. Granted, the scope of most jobs require you to do so. If you see something on Facebook, you automatically believe it has to be true and so many people are quick to repost something without doing the proper due diligence. Most stuff is just….stuff. But when you are reposting some derogatory shit about an actual person without checking any facts, that is just plain irresponsible. Facebook has turned us into fucken droids. Zombies. Fucken Stepford wives. People are just in autopilot, not even thinking about what they are saying and doing. I tell you, I was so disgusted with that shit today, thinking how much fucken mind control Facebook has over folks, I almost straight shut my account down. But then I realized there was a need for sound-minded people like me to balance out the fuckery and be the voices of reason for those who have been compromised.

I feel like I am in the Matrix.

#bluepill