Re:ummm... (Score 1)

I agree. I was in the same boat as a teenager (I'm 21 now). Shunned, teased, horrible, cruel people...I'll never forget all the times my computer log for classes were "borrowed" out of the teacher's filing cabinet because other kids wanted to copy off my notes...but high school doesn't last forever. It's just three years out of your life. I bit my tongue and waited for the day knowing that when everyone else was flipping burgers I'd be programming - and I am :-) It took time, but I found my place. You just have to be secure in the thought that you can always do better, and that eventually some day you'll show the people, in the real world, when things and time matter more than in high school, that you were always on the road that was right for you :-)

On the other hand, I hate to see people blame the internet. My own mother thinks I've been taken in by an internet cult - hee hee, I don't know if a model horse list counts as that...oh well. It's not the medium, it's something far deeper. My uncle has never been on the internet, he lives out in the woods somewhat like Hunter Thompson :-) and he can show you how to make a few righteous potato guns. Never blame the medium, only the objects that float in it.