The Quiet Girl

                                            =   The image presented on social media is not reality. Furthermore, it is not a reliable source of information when seeking the truth or the news. Well, many news companies are biased and I have even heard of people publishing "fake news," but social media is the all-time worst when it comes to seeking information. It has increasingly gotten worse as time has passed, to the point of being fake-ly ridiculous. I posted a post on this blog several years ago about my deleting of Facebook in order to get away from someone toxic, but also because I was tired of seeing people only posting their best moments and nothing else, not even the everyday tasks of their lives such as cooking, cleaning, or working on the car. I got a Facebook again shortly after that, and I only post my music, art, blog posts from here, hiking moments, and my cats Polly and Shadowfax. For many people, for a long time, social media was the main (or only) way they sa

                                                                                                                Adonyi Gabor from Pexels  I'm going to be honest, reading is not my favorite. It has to be a topic that really grabs me for me to get into the book. But with the current times I stumbled upon a book that my sister had read as a kid and enjoyed, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. She loved that book so much, she even did a book report on it and painted a large poster of a book going into a fire, with the introductory sentence, "It was a pleasure to burn." I decided to read the book and find out what it was about after hearing that it was about topics such as censorship and a social-media-centered world.                                                                                                                        Snapwire from Pexels The story is about a young fireman, Guy Montag, questioning why the world is the way it is, and why books have been forgotten

   I remember when YouTube was in its first few years. I was 9 when the first video, "Me At the Zoo", was uploaded. YouTube was much better before it was bought out by Google. It seemed to be run by independent artists, musicians, makeup artists and hairstylists alike who otherwise would not get their content seen or heard. The musicians never edited themselves in any way, it was just them being them, with a simple guitar and their voices, playing in their bedrooms and singing naturally, or playing the clarinet in church or in their living rooms. No fancy backdrops, no fixing their hair up, just real music. And everyday people were getting views. YouTube should have stayed this way.  Here are some of the videos I enjoyed watching in the 2000s:  Skillet- Yours to Hold (Cover by Lauren and Ashley) : two girls were on a dorm bed. One girl played     her Taylor guitar very well, and the other girl sang very nicely. Very well done. I cannot find it anywhere anymore, very sad. The

   I previously talked about AI and how detrimental it already is and how detrimental it has the potential to be. Now I am going to talk about Google, which is a whole other subject.  Google used to be a source of fun. When I was a kid I researched different subjects for many school projects on Google. Mom would search "Free Coloring Pages" for myself and my sister, print them out, and watch us color away. And the computer never showed pop-up ads for free coloring pages when my mom checked her email or went to order something on eBay later in the day. Mom would just search, the computer would never know, and all was well.  When I was in eighth grade, my mother began to tell me that she does not like Google because they were beginning to track her information. I could not fully comprehend what that meant, similar to a teenager not being able to grasp paying necessary, adult bills. Now as a grown-up I understand what Google does, and I greatly do not appreciate it.  During my a

And now I will continue my case against Artificial Intelligence. But wait, There's More! And it will continue from where I left off from the last post I wrote about how computers decide whether a person's insurance continues, or whether a review is published, etc. So let's continue on..... To begin, I am the opposite of a Karen, and strive to have manners. (For those who are not familiar with that term, it is a term used to describe grown women who throw fits when they don't get their own way, and who are acting in every way like a spoiled, bratty child.) When my insurance was cancelled, even though my agent was fantastic, I decided to file a complaint about the company (not the agent) on a popular business review website. I don't throw out bad reviews just because a waitress was not precise with filling my drink up or because someone didn't greet me exactly when I enter a store.  Something legitimately bad, dangerous, or downright rude has to happen and be done

                                                                 Photo Credit: Tara Winstead from Pexels  In the last post I discussed the number one reason why I think AI is detrimental to our world, and how I am afraid if people don't see what is going on that it will eventually push art and music, along with intelligent writing, into antiquity. Now I will discuss something else that bothers me about AI, and how people are in favor of it running the show in other ways.  I am tired of calling a company on the phone and getting a robot on the other end. It tries so desperately to sound like a person, but it fails miserably. It says things like, "I can help you with ____. Just speak to me like you would a person." If you don't speak loudly enough, it says, "I'm sorry, I didn't quite get that." Then it repeats the question so robotically and is a pain to deal with. It now takes a long pathway of searching to find the customer service number, and you m