I surf the web much of the day, I admit. Most of it for work, or personal research*, or surfing cute cat photos with dumb misspelled captions, but also to try to stay in touch with what's happening in the world from my little rural shelter. I'm fascinated with the fast-moving flow of social chatter and the undulating waves of trends that froth up and die away. I love to run across hot topics and controversies I've never heard about before. So that just happened and I feel the need to share.
I just ran across this word, clicktivism, that I guess denotes activism through web actions like blogs, email campaigns, on-line petitions, etc. That's not really what I'm writing about though. It's that by the time I heard of this word, today, when I googled it all I can find are articles about the reaction to the reaction against it. In other words, I missed the first or second discussion go-round and am now catching up to the backlash to the backlash.
What strikes me about this is that clearly trends are flowing by me at high speed on either side and I can only occasionally reach out and grab one by the slippery tail. There are many millions of concepts out there that people are debating, pondering on, arguing about, that I've never even heard of. I don't know why, but I like knowing that.
Anyway, I'm done with the clicktivist idea already - it's over. Cool word, though. So what else have you heard lately?
I thought I just made this word up, but it already has a logo. Sheesh.
*PS: This does not refer to research in the personals
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