This is Tragic and Scary

I am a baby boomer. I was born in 1963. I am the last generation to have not had the internet and computers in their life from the beginning. My children grew up with the internet and social media. But growing up in the 60's and 70's I relied on natural entertainment. There wasn't a phone or device insight. We PLAYED OUTSIDE and had fun.

I am a light internet user. I only have limited social media. Facebook and Instagram as well as my blogs. (Which I have put all of them on hold as of the end of September. I just felt that social media was more toxic to me than advantageous). So I have decided to take a break from them for awhile.

But even when I was on them, I am NOT social media suavy at all. I know very little about how these sights work. Facebook is about the only one I understand. But lately I have found it to be upsetting. I had to step back and take a break.

I have never had a love for our "new" society. You will have read often how I long for the simple life of my childhood. But lately I have grown very concerned over how our world is turning. I am just going to come out and say it,... I think the internet and devices and social media will be the end of civilization as we know it. In my childhood,... if I saw it in the paper or on the news - I could trust it. And our society seemed strait forward. What yous saw was real.

But roll on 50 years and now you can't believe or trust ANYTHING you read or see. 

AI is taking over our society. 

I know I sound like an old whipper snapper complaining of the new modern times,... but what I see on the internet is almsot always FAKE. You can't trust what you see. That can be unsettling. And it can be evil,... as it is used in some extremely dangerous ways. The evil people in our world have now got a tool they never had before. 

AI and BOTS

For my generation we can be a little clueless to the dangers of just how dangerous the internet can be. I think the younger generations are aware - but are not afraid. They should be. 

I happened upon this video while watching YouTube. It is just ONE EXAMPLE of how BOTS and AI can hurt and even kill people. This is a situation where a 14 year old CHILD commit suicide because of a BOT.  BOTS are not even real people. Which makes this story all the more devastating. This poor kid thought it was a real person he was talking to. 

This BOT was deliberately evil and even encouraged this child to end his life. 

Think about that. It wasn't even real. How can we navagate a society when we don't trust or believe what we see? People are being scammed and fooled EVERYWHERE and it is only getting more and more sophisticated making it impossible to know if what you are seeing is real.

We are headed into a dystopian world where we are not allowed to see the truth anymore and are only fed what people want us to see and believe. The media is far too powerful right now as it controls what we see.

I don't feel safe in this world right now. Scammers trying to scam me every time I open my laptop or email. People who instigate with nasty comments on Facebook just because its fun for them. Nope,... I dont like this new world. Where did kindness and morality go?

Please take a minute to view this video. I am not affiliated with this channel at all. It's just that as a senior and not that suavy on the internet - I was shocked to see what a BOT can do. I didn't even really know what a BOT was. This was eye opening. And after I had seen it,... it left me wondering. 

Where is all of this going? Because to me it marks the beginning of a whole different world. One that I want no part of. 

Bring back the days of one telephone in a household that hung on your kitchen wall with a cord that tethered you to a six foot radious. We had no privacy and we didn't know any better. THAT was our technology. Some of us didn't even have tv's,... I found life simplier. And more wholesome. Life had substance back then. It was real.

Life to me now is just a fake facade on a laptop screen,... the only thing I have that connects me to the outside world is my blog. And right now - thats how I want to keep it. 

So watch this video and tell me you won't walk away worried about your grandchildren on the internet.

This story really is Tragic and Scary