Blog The Right Thing

Transparency is a tricky notion. Anyone would think that the Internet make good and bad acts show up faster. It is true that we can have access to any events around the globe faster, because the technology made it possible.

But since we always hear about the bad acts first, it made me realize that, we only hear about those things because people are interested by it. Anything can be transparent on the Internet. But it only comes up to our attention, because the web community made one singular event popular. It is all about popularity. It is all about rating, about how many people looked at one particular video.

What is sad though is that, this mass effect of the Internet rarely happens when something good takes place. People want to see drama, they are more attracted to what is wrong in this world. But if the Internet has been so transparent over the past few years, it is because it caught the attention of the other media, which actually realize how powerful the Internet can be, and how many people it reaches. It's like a perfect circle, something happens, someone took a video of it and posted it on the Internet. People start looking at in, and when it has reached a certain number of views, the TV for example is going to talk about it and emphasizes the buzz around it, making more and more people want to watch it. Because who would want to be kept out of the loop? Human beings are curious, that is why the Internet has become so transparent.