Wednesday, October 20, 2004
The Internet: Date of Social Acceptance.....1997
Internet Chatrooms: Date of Social Acceptance....Pending
The current stereotype is that of a socially retarded spotty semiclad male sitting in a darkened room fervorously tapping messages to people he will never meet.
In reality, I am in a corporate office, avoiding work. And the lights are on.
Back in the day when I started using SMS, part of the geeky appeal was that nobody else knew what the hell SMS was. And then girls starting using SMS, and it became cool.
Whatever women do, fastracks the event to becoming both mainstream and therefore accepted. Take engineering. An overwhelming proportion of women do not want to become engineers, and Engineers are about as socially desirable as a GW Bush banner in a mosque.
This has got to change. Girls use chatrooms now (or so i'm led to believe by this blonde Swedish 19 year old), so what's holding it up from going mainstream? Is is this girl really a balding, pot bellied, yellow toothed, badly dressed, MAN? Probably. And until women start using IRC by the droves, the stereotype is going to stick.
The alternative is money. The internet got accepted when people started making barrels of money from it, and quickly became attractive to the opposite sex. So, if someone figures a way to make reams of cashola outta chatrooms....
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