The internet is the closest most people will come to true democracy.
Online we are just electrons floating about in cyberspace.
Thus debates can be won on nothing more than the strength of the arguement presented.
The age, race, gender, sexuality, appearence , education, social & financial status of the posters is not apparent thus you get the closest to a truely equal debate as one can get and that is wonderful and very powerful.
Farce book and the like, put an end to that and tend to do the exact opposite.
I had a customer who fell out of favour with the magazine editors so got no more photo commissions.
He went home to see his parents while he was deciding what to do for a crust.
Mummy got him to "tweak" her face book image a little, followed by his mothers friends then before he knew it he was working full time doing vanity portraits for face book participants.
A year latter he had 3 retouch artists working for him and over the next couple of years made enough money to buy a house outright and set up a pension fund for himself.
He also converted photos into avitars both "sexy" & comic.
So now he has "retired" and does photo holidays selling images to image houses and doing the odd travel story, enough of which get published to claim the lot as tax deductions.
His mother with her new images got thousands of more followers then ran for & got elected to local government something she had been trying to do for ages.
If Clinton has some better face lifts and a boob job done she would probably have romped home and the world would have been spared millions of bad Bush jokes.
So I like things just the way they are.
You can decide if I am talking truth or rubbish, based upon what I actually say.
I don't even use spell checkers any more so my posts go out with my bad spelling thus not creating the image that I am a well educated, well read , highly articulate person so my opinions must be worth more than yours.
As for me personally, I do like to keep myself to myself and lets face it, any one who builds data bases about other people is not doing it for the benefit of the people in it.
