Pop-Psychology

Everything is worth something. Economics thrives on that notion and very proudly works to weigh the opportunity costs of this, that, and the other to determine the utility of an item, action, or desire. The idea, of course, is that you can calculate the value of one thing in relation to other things that could be sought after or attained for the same amount of effort. Or can you? Continued

YouTube isn’t what it used to be (but that’s a good thing). Gone are the days of only sitting at home or in an office and clicking on links sent from friends, family, and coworkers to watch sneezing pandas, skateboarding puppies, and people hurting themselves in ways we’d never thought possible. YouTube has become a group activity - something that you do when you’re in a room full of people and a web browser is open. Everyone gathers around the tiny glowing screen to watch the videos that they’ve all seen before in a very different way. What’s more, each and every person in the room brings to the table a whole suite of different videos that they have on their internalized favorites list in hopes of winning over the crowd. Sometimes they’re funny; sometimes they’re not. The group, of course, reacts accordingly and the person in charge of the keyboard can quickly be praised or booted for his or her choice in videos. Continued

Now, more than ever, people from all over the world are within reach of one another. Someone in Sweden can just as easily be chatting with a friend in Japan and that friend in Japan may just be dating someone that lives in Brazil. Distance is no longer a factor when it comes to communications in today’s world. Thanks to the internet, you can quite easily be in two-hundred places at once - all at the touch of a button.
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