pi4nobl4ck:

“Sorry people, because here comes a long entry (at least for tumblr standards). I never did this and probably will never do again, so sit tight and read.” 

 

Here on tumblr, people know me for the crude images, juvenile humor, bad temper and whatever this awful blog is about. But I’m feeling like I must step a little out of character and say a couple of things.

All of you probably (at very least the majority of you) aren’t aware of the best thing on the internet. The best site, the best social network, the best sharing device, the only one place really worth of “being apart”. It’s not Tumblr. It’s not 4Chan. Definitely it’s not Facebook.  

Since 2005, and until this day, there was a crazy little thing called “Google Reader”. You might be familiar with the name; It’s the name that inspired this blog title. I pretty much loved it. Now, after some utterly dumb decision from Google, the service is now changed at the point of being unrecognizable. 

To make things simpler, I will explain very briefly what it was: It’s the internet. Your internet. How you wanted to see it. How you wanted to experience it. 

Doesn’t sound amazing for you? Fair enough. Now I will say why it is the highest achievement on internet matters:

It has a sharing system.

“Facebook has it”, you may say.

No, I answer.  

What Facebook has is an “imposition system”. Things you don’t care about, irrelevant acquaintances vacation photos, relatives stupid opinions, yadda yadda, that are thrown on your face like acid, and all you can do is trying the best to ignore and move on with your life. Imposition.

And even when you try to actually share something you still have to deal with the worst problem with any platform. Humans.

All Facebook and other similar sites wants it’s the highest number of humans possible. That’s why they check if you are not a robot.

That’s the problem. Humans do not understand, are unreasonable, annoying, biased, incapable of discuss 3 lines of text without getting flamed and bring Jesus, Hitler, Veganism or whatever they believe with all their presumption to the field. Doesn’t matter if it’s not even applies. They just do. And the worst sin: they don’t have any sense of humor.

 

Which brings us back to Google Reader.  

There weren’t any humans on the site. We were PEOPLE. A real community. A haven where we could really share things, not impose, and talk about them, discover new sites, new blogs, new people, laugh. Grow our internet network together. And whenever some “human” mistakenly makes its way into a thread, we backed up which other. We would repent him with the most simple, and yet effective, weapon: plain old sarcasm. We were many. We had the power. After years, 6 to be more exact, we became more than friends. We became one.  Sounds hippie, I know, but we were not trying to change the world. Just protecting our own.

Sadly Google gave up their old motto “Don’t be evil” for more advertising bucks. And in the urge of inflating even more the already overpopulated, but soulless, Google+, they killed Google Reader. They killed us.

Some are trying to build up a system for us again. Has potential, could even be better. But what saddens me most it’s this uncalled move from Google it’s the last  proof that we will always be hiding on the shadows, that we just can’t afford to not be part of the masses. We can’t fit and will always pay for it. Pay it with our freedom. It’s the victory of Idiocracy. The better for them, the worst for us.     

 

Goodbye, Google Reader, and thank you for all.

(song: Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here)

Ps: Sorry for the broken English. I’m used to write one or two sentences. I tried my best. Don’t be shy to correct me.

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