I've often wondered about this phenomenon, people empowered by the web and their new found audience, struggling to find the balance between the solo soapbox and

I've often wondered about this phenomenon, people empowered by the web and their new found audience, struggling to find the balance between the solo soapbox and tapping into a collective sentiment as authority and sage. I'm not trying to assert any of this as being the case for the author, but when I was in my teens during the early days of the web, entranced by that heady feeling of being on the vanguard of something truly special, with a little fiefdom at my fingertips simply by being there, I too felt an emboldening, a sense of purpose and grandeur and the emotional vitality and certitude to make sweeping statements, to talk of The Community and be a bold spokesperson. To be figuring out the world, positing ideas and learning about where they take you and how to communicate and convince and argue and wax and eulogize, these are valuable things to learn at any age. Let Apple and Samsung tremble before a critique written with passion and determination long before any such fire is quenched, we are always free to be our own filters for taste.