Words and Ideas of The Day

First word: Alienate.

alienate (NOT WELCOME)

verb [T] to make someone feel that they are different and do not belong to a group.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=2050&dict=CALD



Second word: Cold.

adjective

not showing affection, kindness or emotion and not friendly:His handshake was cold, and his eyes lifeless.He stared into her cold blue eyes.She would never feel welcome in this city with its cold, unsmiling inhabitants.The school was a cold, unwelcoming place.

coldly
adverb

in an unfriendly way and without emotion:"That's your problem, " she said coldly.

coldness
noun
It was the coldness of her manner that struck me.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=14839&dict=CALD

Ok, that was three iterations of that idea.

Next word: Creepy.

adjective
INFORMAL
strange or unnatural and making you feel frightened:
a creepy film
a creepy smile

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=18196&dict=CALD

And that leads to: Unnatural.

adjective
not natural, see at nature (LIFE).

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=86796&dict=CALD

And even if the hyperlink carried over, let's take a look at the def. for: Natural.

normal or expected:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=53023&dict=CALD
and

adjective
as found in nature and not involving anything made or done by people:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=53038&dict=CALD



Now why I am I hung up on this particular chain of thought? Increasingly, The Internet Is Creeping Me Out.

Not so much the regular surfing, but moreso "CyberCulture" and net socializing.


I have been on the internet since early 1997, and I have tried to get with it. I am a modern guy. However, I am not by nature what anyone but a real hermit would call a "People Person." And even if I hear/read some folk say they are more likely to be and get social on line then in real life (some call that the disinhibition effect) to me, for the most part, internet socializing is as likely if not more so, to leave me feeling Alienated than not. I find it Cold. I find it Unnatural. I find it Creepy.

Not all the time, and not excessively creepy. I do not mean Steven King novel Creepy. I mean creepy in the sense that you get invited to some party some where, and you feel generally mildly uncomfortble with the room, and you realize that the people there all seem to be into the same slightly weird thing, and share the same slightly weird ideas to a great extent, and even if the ideas are not totally alien to you, the level of interest they all seem to place in it, seems EXCESSIVE.

Hope that explains it. Sorry for being critical yet again. Well at least I have changed what I am criticizing . . . at least here on this blog.