The Internet is good, but it's getting worse

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"The Internet is my faith" is my signature. The power of the Internet is obvious to all, and it seems to be dominating the future world.

The Internet is sunshine. Compared with traditional industries, the Internet does not rely on monopoly resources, does not require so-called relationships, and does not have dark primitive accumulation. Everything is under the sunshine.

The Internet is a dream. Many of the wealthy people created by it are self-made. With good ideas or technologies, they are changing the world. They bring the real "Chinese Dream" to entrepreneurs and are respected by all walks of life. For entrepreneurs, it is an industry with the lowest threshold.

The Internet is open. Whether it is the open source movement, open platforms, or the so-called ecosystems of major giants, the Internet has open blood flowing in its bones. Although the lack of connection between apps in the mobile era has blocked some of this openness, overall it is still an open industry that is inclusive.

The Internet is freedom. You can express your opinions more freely. Goods, data and cash can flow more freely. Various industries, organizations and entities can connect freely by bypassing traditional barriers.

The Internet is about sharing. People’s idle cars, idle time, and idle money can be shared on Uber, Zhubajie, or P2P platforms, making the best use of various idle resources.

The Internet represents efficiency. Services require less queuing, the cost of commodity circulation is lower, news reaches users' mobile phones in real time, and with the help of the Internet, the new generation of input methods are much more efficient than the first generation input methods based on local devices.

However, this is of no use.

What I see is that the Internet is like all tools that emerge. Some people use it to make the world a better place, while others use it to make the world a worse place.

War of words: I have no interest in the war between LeTV and Xiaomi. Such wars are played out every day, and manufacturers try every means to consume the world's attention. What changes is the means, and what remains unchanged is the purpose. This has been proven time and again. The Internet is the best place for wars of words, and is being skillfully used by more and more bigwigs. Players who work hard are very lonely, lying down and getting shot, and the world doesn't play with you at all. There are no hardware giants in China, only conference giants; there are no hardware giants, only marketing masters; there is no need to think about how to make a good product, just find ways to say that the opponent is not good to set off yourself, whose sorrow is it?

Novice users are hijacked: E-commerce shopping festivals continue to use tricks such as first raising prices and then lowering prices. This is just part of "Internet marketing". The traditional retail industry has been overused in hunger marketing, futures marketing, business marketing, and selling dog meat under the guise of sheep. On the Internet, they are popular in a different way. What's worse, users are "kidnapped" by various gentle means without knowing it. Users are played around like "monkeys" and have been given a new name, called "novice users". They are coaxed, frightened, and deceived.

Everyone loves subsidies: Taxi apps pay people to ride in their cars every day, and people applaud. But I think of the word dumping: dumping.

Dumping refers to the act of exporters from one country or region selling their products to another country's market at a price lower than the normal or average price in the domestic market or even lower than the cost price, with the aim of defeating competitors, seizing the market, and thereby causing damage to producers and industries of the same or similar products in the importing country.

To exaggerate, the "Internet region" is dumping its products into the "traditional region", isn't it? By quickly seizing the market with money and forming a certain degree of or absolute monopoly, you will be the lamb to be slaughtered. Internet players say that we will not "feed the sheep", but "feed the pigs", but the question is who is raising the pigs? Look at similar cases in the past, how many applications were free at first, but users suffered later? It's just that you have no choice at that time.

There is indeed no monopoly: after a platform reaches a certain size, it often runs rampant throughout the industry. From copying and crushing small and medium-sized players, to making platform rules in its own way, to the so-called ecosystem that looks open but is actually exploitative and dominating, everything is to build a self-centered "empire".

No one cares about your privacy: Your privacy is exposed to the fullest, and you will receive harassing calls and spam messages every day. If you are not careful, you will be exposed naked in public, and not many people think it is wrong, "It's your fault for not preparing for the reason you are exposed."

Everything is floating in the air: everything you see may be an illusion, such as the comments on a product, the amount of a crowdfunding campaign, a ranking of an app market, a market report by an independent organization, the number of views of a WeChat picture or text, the amount of financing for entrepreneurs converted from RMB to USD... Brushing data has become the norm, and fake data is everywhere. People have learned to carefully package everything they need to package, just like the gorgeous avatars that are everywhere on social networks, thanks to the existence of Meitu XiuXiu.

It's pretty bad.

The Internet has grown wildly, but it is somewhat chaotic from the bottom up. No one is responsible for it, no one can change it, and no one is willing to change it. It seems that everyone is a beneficiary. Who cares about what will happen tomorrow? Drink today, maybe I think too much, as someone commented on Weibo: youcanyouup, nocannobee, or in other words, the Internet is not suitable for you, go back to Mars. However, Mars is about to be Internet+.