Where will I be in five years time? I will have glided through university, sailed into my first full time job and be gracefully working my way up through the company. Having travelled to many places far and wide, colliding with other lives. When you meet someone, part of that person stays with you. You interact with them, and you change them in varying degrees. Whether they remember you and you them throughout the rest of 
this captivating expedition is yet to be seen, but you will have imparted something to them. And what would you want to impart? If you met someone fleetingly what would you want them to know? Something about yourself? Your world views, beliefs, causes or crusades? That you feel that the salvation of the world is that people must realise the perfection of the world in which they live? Or would you simply reassure them that they are a good person and should carry on doing good things for themselves and those around them (which I think is what advertising does!?)? What would you want to receive from them? Would you want the reassurance that you're a good person doing good things? Or would you want to learn of the world that they have come from? Whatever you learn from the people around you, you can be assured that knowledge is power, and that by learning and sharing knowledge with the people that you meet we grow stronger as humanity.
this captivating expedition is yet to be seen, but you will have imparted something to them. And what would you want to impart? If you met someone fleetingly what would you want them to know? Something about yourself? Your world views, beliefs, causes or crusades? That you feel that the salvation of the world is that people must realise the perfection of the world in which they live? Or would you simply reassure them that they are a good person and should carry on doing good things for themselves and those around them (which I think is what advertising does!?)? What would you want to receive from them? Would you want the reassurance that you're a good person doing good things? Or would you want to learn of the world that they have come from? Whatever you learn from the people around you, you can be assured that knowledge is power, and that by learning and sharing knowledge with the people that you meet we grow stronger as humanity. 
Despite all of the new views, opinions and information that you can incur from Googling and searching the web, it would be just as easy to only find people who agree with your world view, which is not what I would use the web for. Since I have been thinking about the massive world of the web, I have been thinking about the benefits it could have on expanding people's view of society globally. But it can just as easily be used to convince yourself that you are correct and right in your views and morals because you can quickly find hundreds of other people who agree with you. And that means you are right, right? Thanks to the broadness and frequentness of advertising we have become very good at screening out unnecessary information, such as adverts. But this could stretch to include screening out views that you disagree with. This is a less inviting way of looking at the world. 
But this isn't just sharing information with people you meet, oh no. No longer can you, vaguely, control the people that you share this existence with, or at least those that you don't share with. Since I started blogging less than a year ago I have had absolutely no control over who reads it. I don't even have any way of knowing who's reading it. I can't even be sure who comments on it, despite them having to leave a name. But I guess that point could lead us to the "how well do we really know anyone" debate, and I'm sure I will get to that in due time, but it's a little deep for my first post of my new blog.
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