As a person who types words on the Internet and also reads much of the nonsense
out there, I preview the comments and wonder?
Who writes this stuff?
If someone, like me, takes the time to put out what might be informative
or stimulating thoughts, why muck it up with comments of hateful or uneducated
rants?
A simple new story turns into a row of opinions and offensive agendas. My
question is ‘Why?’
(Preface: I don’t chat or tweet or
get into running streams that go nowhere and I rarely comment on post, but I do
read many of them with amazement and thus my own rant)
Recently I read some article from an established journalistic news agency
and reviewed the comments. The first few were somewhat intelligent review of
the writing with some interesting personal reflections, but then came the blast
against everything from the writer to the media to the government to religion
to the man-in-the-moon.
How does this happen? Are we that distracted?
A comment (to me) should be like a critics review. Comments should be an
intelligible intellectual discussion of the thoughts or actions of another who
took the time to post for others to read and react to.
Most artist and writers and performers enjoy and learn from the comments
of their audience. If a writer writes for profit (or survival) he or she
appreciates the response of their readers. It is data from their audience that
helps them perceive their better points for future efforts.
If the comments are full of hate mongering, it is like spraying graffiti
on the Mona Lisa. Suggest start your own original blog to spew your filth. Like
any civilized discussion, if you can’t add anything interesting, stay quiet.
With that said, and all those with strong idealism from politics to
abortion to gun control to parking tickets, will wave the ‘free speech’ flag in
my face. I’m sure we all have something to say, but it can be constructive or
destructive and without the basics of fact version fiction, the Internet has
become a pool of screaming memes. If your comment is nothing more than a
selfie, I will delete it.
What I am asking is when authors, painters, musicians, and artist of
every kind post examples of their creativity on social media, take the time to
review it and say what you like and what you don’t like in an intellectual
method?
Again my point is, when an artist posts something they would like to be
responded to on the web, respond to it. Make a comment. It makes the piece grow
stronger.
Comment?
