I will admit that I also thought the Internet was bigger than it was, particularly about the political drama unfolding this year. I thought that in general Barack Obama was heavily favored over Hillary Clinton but he really wasn't even though the Internet wants you to believe he was.
There's also a huge congregation of BS spewing out of the Internet at any given time as well. Look at email forwards that are fake. Even my coworkers who have been working in IT for 5, 10, 15 years believe photoshopped images and forwarded emails are real. These are the same people who go to family reunions and hear raw bullshit that their relatives tell them like Barack Obama is Saddam Hussein's brother.
The Internet changes nothing.
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