So the President comes out strongly for Net Neutrality and the silence is deafening.

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43. I hear ya

I don't really have any in-person friends because people pick on me at school, calling me geek and making fun of my glasses and my interest in computers. My family members are certifiable: my father drinks, my brother has big-time 'roid rage and I have other relatives who are hoarders and senile elderly. I barely have time to talk to my mother, or should I say she barely has time to talk to me because she is so busy with so many things (that other people could take care of but delegate responsibilities so they can do nothing).

Nobody I know reads and wants to talk about books; they only want to talk about bullshit on the Kardashians or Honey Booboo. Nobody listens to the same music I do, at least nobody my age anyway. I can't talk about things I learned in class (besides having learned I'm an ugly geek), because nobody understands what I'm talking about and anything other than the weather gets me referred to as a snob. I'm in the minority in my area even going to college in the first place. Most people who live around me are high-school dropouts and immigrants for whom the "American dream" is a foreign phrase in the abstract.

The only place I really interact now is on DU and some other forums (lol, Pirate Bay). I used to be on HuffPost, but they switched to Failbook for comments, and I absolutely refuse to bother with mainstream social media.

If Net Neutrality dies and the Internet gets destroyed, I'll become a complete recluse and probably end up going insane. I kid you not. There is absolutely NO ONE I have to talk to in my day-to-day life.

I've already started slipping sometimes into talking to myself.