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Or we can just put the computers in the trash and we’d socialize because it’s natural. I get that it’s the only viable option for many, but a digital medium fe

• rektide 6y ago
  As a kid, sometimes it feels like there is not a lot you can do. Maybe you can't go get elected & run or office right now. Maybe you do have friends you can go hang out with, but they're all probably like you... powerless kids also looking for something to do. Part of what is neat about computers, neat about streaming, is that the computer doesn't care. You can stream. You can make movies. You can create, be creative, you can share. You can learn better about yourself & what you can do. You can learn what isn't working, what isn't good. And you can decide which of those things you want to fix, adjust, change, & make better. Computers, general purpose computers, will let you refine & iterate & alter & change, as far down the rabbit hole as you dare to go. It's a bit of a far cry to streaming, ok maybe, to playing games online on camera, but it's in the same world of creativity, of creating. It starts the same way. It lets you develop yourself in similar ways. Limited only by how far & weird you are willing & able to take it, by your willingness to explore where you might go.