An update - 9/29/2013

I'm sorry that I can't write blog posts on a consistent schedule.  I promise I'll try to make them more consistently.  I plan to finish a blog about every week or two, most probably on a Friday.  It's because I want to use my time better.  I'd rather stimulate my brain to write a blog post than to let it fall into dystrophy while I'm on Facebook.

Anyways, I have a few updates.

1)  At the end of the summer, I got a Surface Pro and I'm planning on making a personal review of it.  So far, I like it and I'll go out of my way to include more than what every online review says about this tablet/laptop hybrid.  I won't be doing benchmark testing or anything remotely like that because that's for computer pros who know what they're talking about.  I'll be speaking about the Surface Pro for the laymen of the computer world.

2)  I have a lot of ideas for blog posts.  They're just all in draft mode in my post queue.

3)  I love art but I get very distracted when I'm not studying... so I had an idea to draw everyday on a whiteboard.  I know it's a real compromise but at least I can practice on my lines.  I won't be uploading pictures of what I draw everyday but it's better than nothing.  I think I'll make it a Tumblr exclusive thing because those drawings won't be polished enough for deviantArt material.

4)  I've been reading some books and I have some responses that I'd like to upload.  I feel that perhaps that if my responses were on sheets of paper that would sit in my room, then they would not get much of an audience reach or maybe even some good responses.  So, I want to put them on the Internet.  I'm pretty sure I won't ever be a literary critic (nor do I want to - critics always peruse for the cons of everything they read about and hardly ever have completely good reviews about anything, kind of like that food critic from the movie Ratatouille).

5)  Since the word "Asian" is in my Internet name, I have plenty of blog posts about how being Asian is usually detrimental (in my own experiences) when I come across people, usually in school.  If I'm outside school, I really don't have any problems about my Asian-American identity.

So... that's all for now.  I hope that someday this blog will become more than a place for my thoughts.

Honor Code

The Internet has become a form of high speed information exchange.  Everyone who's in school knows how much more time it would take if everyone had to research with only books.

Despite these advances, I cannot say that the Internet is a good place overall.  A form of communication is only as good as its use.  I bet all of you have heard about Facebook addictions, online bullying, and other detrimental outcomes out of social media.

The topic of shaming people via the Internet is horrible in my opinion.  I feel that people no longer have a respect for the respect of others because there are little consequences for it.  Unless online shaming results in a suicide, there are no tangible consequences for this misconduct.  Sure, abusive users get banned if enough people report that user but that won't prevent the user from making another account to continue the abuse.  For example, no one may ever know if any bulling had occurred on sites like Twitter.  Tweets can be too indirect to detect bullying.  An entire name could be in a tweet and bullying could be easily lost in the constant tweet surge of Twitter.

Posting pictures of celebrities, which can legitimate or not, seem to be a surefire but lurid way of selling out sensational tabloids.

In protest of this selfish, cynical and horrid form of modern revenge, I pledge never to call someone out by name on the Internet.  I may talk about the affliction a jerk caused me online, but I will only give names to people that have the authority to take concrete action against those who wronged me (such as a principal in school).  If you, the reader, happen to know or figure out who I am ever talking about, then that is great for you.  However, please respect the honor of other people and don't spread (true and untrue) stories that can harm anyone.

Maybe it's because I'm Asian... but I have a very strong sense of respecting the honor of others.  For example, if I overheard a classmate admitted to getting high on the weekend, I won't spread the story around like a wildfire.  If anything I will probably forget it, sooner or later.

All in all, I ask you to not call people out in petty revenge.  I promise you that there are many better ways of dealing with people than to shame them online in any form.