wonders of technology

Having played with computers since young [and most probably till the day I die] doesn't mean I support everything that holds bits and bytes and confuses people by displaying virtual objects that look exactly like real ones. Like a double edged sword advancements in technology has no doubt help us alot, but now it seems like we are so absorbed in it that we cannot live a day without it.

Back in the good old days of school a long bus ride from Point A to Point B with a good friend meant endless chatting and laughing on almost everything under the sun. Now everyone is armed with a portable entertainment device in hand, whether mobile phone, MP3 player, or Playstation Portable, or all three, with earpieces stuck in ears. Throughout the trip the total number of words exchanged probably does not exceed ten. No offence to anyone, I myself plead guilty to that.

Online advertisements are well hated by many. Actually there's nothing wrong with them; the Internet's another place to reach out to consumers, but they have to thank the irritating little windows that pop up at almost every single website and the tiny trackers that record your surfing habits and send them back to advertising companies so they can pop up more relevant advertisements for you, which is no different from an intrusion to privacy.

And now there is this. You pay a sum of money to buy a number of referrals [you can choose not to, but you take a longer time to earn money.] , and everytime you and/or your referrals click on the ads listed on the site and stays there for thirty seconds you earn some money. A couple of my friends have already paid a couple of hundreds of dollars, and are slowly earning money back.

Of course there is nothing wrong with it, but somehow I feel that like the pop ups and the trackers, it defeats the purpose of advertising. Because people click on the links and go to the websites for the sake of money, not because they are genuinely interested in them. And it seems to give an impression that earning money is easy, which..shouldn't be the correct mindset..?

Of course, technology is not that bad, there's still this. Haha.

Gotta run. I'm late.