One Reassuring Thing About The Internet...
No matter how much you geek out over something, there’s always someone else on the internet geeking out even more. And they aren’t shy about letting you know about it!
Like, okay, I was excited to see the original Wall-E trailer that played before Ratatouille. I’ve been looking forward to Wall-E ever since hearing the unspeakably awesome SplineCast with Andrew Stanton… but there I go again. And yet, see, when I watch this, I’m clearly not in the same place about this movie:
Wow. I love how it’s in two parts.
Of course, this brings me to the alarming thing about the internet:
It makes you think you’re not geeking out that much… when you totally, totally are. And even more so for having fed your interest online. And yet, on the internet, it’s okay. You’re somehow, impossibly, among friends.
From Wikipedia to World of Warcraft to Facebook to Twitter, I think that the great social accomplishment of the internet is to make it okay to obsess over things because there’s always someone, or indeed many people, close at hand that are even more obsessed than you. I think I may even be being serious. In any case, it never ceases to amaze me.