Oh icky-poot, I totally missed this post earlier - just noticed it now because I decided to wander around my LJ-list page whilst waiting for Miss Black to finish making her cuppa at the other end of our IM :-)
The Listening Post does sound both fascinating and disturbing. It's sort of voyeuristic and funny and sad and creepy and shocking and life-affirming all at once. - I think I get that; that describes pretty much how I've always felt about the internet, and why I almost never wander beyond my defined personal bit of it - no fandoms, no public chatrooms, no webcomix (eww anyway, for the most part), no YouTube surfing, no ~retches~ celebrity gossip sites, Definitely no soi-disant "social networking sites" apart from LJ itself...because yes, the world truly is that huge and it's the sort of hugeness that the human brain can't really take in, except in the most fleeting and blinkered and superficial way.
The closest I've ever come to Listening Post-ness is when I've clicked (a total of three times in the past few years) on the internal LJ link that lets one browse all public LJ posts worldwide. I found a few fascinating posts, and some fabulous photos, but mostly what I found was the "sad and creepy and shocking" portion. There are so many pointless people out there, every one of them shouting SEE ME HEAR ME READ ME VALIDATE ME NOW NOW NOW PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!, and so many scarily skewed mindsets and opinions, and most of all so many rude, selfish, shallow little oxygen thieves...urgle. Glad you and I accidentally stumbled into the same elite corner of Cyberia all those years ago! :-)
Now, I love stage-dooring, because I always think it's exciting to meet the cast and hear their thoughts on the show and stuff, but this kind of thing weirds me out.
...and is one of the reasons I've stayed under the radar since quitting The Biz, sigh :-( I like it that you always seem to pay your respects to your heroes and icons by simply paying your respects - e.g. Dame Judi, Tennant, etc.
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The Listening Post does sound both fascinating and disturbing. It's sort of voyeuristic and funny and sad and creepy and shocking and life-affirming all at once. - I think I get that; that describes pretty much how I've always felt about the internet, and why I almost never wander beyond my defined personal bit of it - no fandoms, no public chatrooms, no webcomix (eww anyway, for the most part), no YouTube surfing, no ~retches~ celebrity gossip sites, Definitely no soi-disant "social networking sites" apart from LJ itself...because yes, the world truly is that huge and it's the sort of hugeness that the human brain can't really take in, except in the most fleeting and blinkered and superficial way.
The closest I've ever come to Listening Post-ness is when I've clicked (a total of three times in the past few years) on the internal LJ link that lets one browse all public LJ posts worldwide. I found a few fascinating posts, and some fabulous photos, but mostly what I found was the "sad and creepy and shocking" portion. There are so many pointless people out there, every one of them shouting SEE ME HEAR ME READ ME VALIDATE ME NOW NOW NOW PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!, and so many scarily skewed mindsets and opinions, and most of all so many rude, selfish, shallow little oxygen thieves...urgle. Glad you and I accidentally stumbled into the same elite corner of Cyberia all those years ago! :-)
Now, I love stage-dooring, because I always think it's exciting to meet the cast and hear their thoughts on the show and stuff, but this kind of thing weirds me out.
...and is one of the reasons I've stayed under the radar since quitting The Biz, sigh :-( I like it that you always seem to pay your respects to your heroes and icons by simply paying your respects - e.g. Dame Judi, Tennant, etc.