Reddit

I have just been writing for 45 minutes and the stupid blog just came up with an error message when I tried to post my comments. This scumbag 2.0 technology lost all my work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and now I am reinventing the wheel and it won't be as good as my first draft - but you'll have to take my word on that.

All I can remember that I said was I came, I saw and I reddit.
This is a forum for people who wish to draw attention to stuff. There is social, political and radical information and news links. The readers get to vote for stories and comment on stories. But in this anon world we ask, who is reading and who is commenting?

There is anti Bush, anti Palin and even anti these anti's. Which is fair, it is a forum for people to express themselves. Reddit is a testament to the fact that people feel powerless about what is going on in the world around them. By commenting and expressing an opinion they can at least feel they are contributing to the discussion and that their little voice may provoke a reaction.

Then there is Lego man - Un immense porte-avions en Lego!! and several pictures devoted to his naval aircraft carrier built out of lego. Very accurate and quite cute if you are into that kind of thing. It raked up 147 comments. One comment: "never seen a navy ship with everyone smiling like that... rather odd and creepy." and this: "Anyone else have the urge to go dress up like a Japanese reptile and smash the **** out of this dude's creation...or am I being unamerican?"

So people can express themselves and if you have time on your hands you can read a lot and comment a lot. Ok, so it is not my cup of tea, it is too US centric and too much of the old US of A can be overwhelming. But if you have something to say post it and see what others have to say. Why not? But who is reading and who is commenting?

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