If I'm a luddite, why am I still here?

Despite the impression the name of this website may give you - I love the internet. It is directly linked to some of the best things in my life from the best friend that I met online 16 years ago to my chosen profession. I still believe in its potential to offer an incredible breadth and depth of experiences to interested audiences, to connect people, and to overcome many barriers to accessing knowledge, socialisation, and economic opportunity. That is why I refuse to cede it to the people committed to making it a worse place through malice or neglect.

I consider it a privilege to have been part of the last generation that experienced some of their childhood without omnipresent internet connectivity. I've joked while researching the effects of social media on increasingly younger kids that experiencing my adolescence in the 2000s feels like the last chopper out of Saigon.

As someone with the benefit of a perspective of life from when being online was still a fun side hobby and not just the soup we're all slowly boiling in; I consider it my duty to be a good internet citizen and exhibit the behaviour I want to see more of.