SAVE THE INTERNET and The Conversation.

BOBW 16
I would like to take a moment to say that it is important for you to contact your local representative and to let them know that you support net neutrality. Net neutrality is defined as, “the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites.”
I don't know about you, but I do not want my internet provider (Comcast) to be able to charge me more just for watching Netflix. Not only that, but they could charge Netflix extra as well! That is double dipping and the only double dipping I appreciate is in a nacho bowl. Do us all a favor and go here to help stop Internet providers from taking over the world. Support Net Neutrality.

Now that the brief civics lesson is done, how about some friendship? I want to mention my go to move to start a conversation. I have talked before about how all people have things in common. I think my first example was the weather and how we all experience it. Well I am about to take an idea and abstract it to the extreme. I mean that in an artsy way.


Anyway, the idea is time. We all experience and we all do our best to stay busy or maybe avoid being busy. So what does time have to do with finding some friendship? Well ask that person how they have been spending most their time lately. Or another way to phrase it, “what is keeping you busy lately?” Now if they are smarty pants they might say sleeping or work. Well ask about what they do besides those things. Chances are that person will share a hobby they are passionate about, or maybe they will complain about their young children it does not matter. The idea is to see what is important to that person. And for all people time is very important.

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