Why I Write (and Care) About the Internet, and What So Many People Get Wrong

Brennan Kenneth Brown: The Internet isn’t a story. It isn’t a detached, real-life plot device for us to have discourse over. It’s far less than that. It’s a place where the story happens. Features, trend pieces, and documentaries treat the Internet as a subject with its own character, motives, and plot, then report on what the Internet is doing to us. As though the Internet is somehow a separate entity from us. The Internet has no plot. It is a place, and what happens there is what has always happened where people gather. People flirt, argue, vent, love, trade, show off, gossip, grieve, fuck, and look for company. The stories worth telling are about those people.