Today’s song chorus says Just You and Me, simple and free. This Chicago song was wrote back in the 70s, the video may give you a clue that it was the 70s. This song was written long before the internet. Today we have the wonderful internet and the internet has changed the meaning of the words- simple and free. Love ,they used to say, is the most misused four letter word Today thanks to the internet that word would now be free. Look at all of the free stuff you can get on the internet. A few weeks ago I was in need of a legal document. That wouldn’t be hard, just get one off the internet, I was able to find several sites that offered free legal documents. I clicked on one of sites and the home page displayed all of their free legal documents. So I made some chicks and came to a page that said create your document, I answered question after question after about 30 or 40 minutes then finally create your document appeared on the screen. I Clicked on it and what appears well it wasn’t my document, it was a page telling I would have to pay $20 for my document. Now I wasn’t paying anything for the document, the$20 was for joining some kind of club or something I really couldn’t tell what the $20 was going for, All I was sure of, my free document was going to cost me $20. You may ask how are these crooks getting by with this? All of the free legal documents sites are ran by lawyers, oh, I guess that explains it. I think all this paying for free stuff on the internet was started by free credit. com they had a lot of commercials on television years ago where they claimed you could get a free credit report, but at the end of each commercial it would be said requires enrollment which was only $59. So the credit report was free all you had to do was pay them $59 to get your free credit report. Now there are commercials that say you can a truly free credit report but they don’t say how much you have to pay to get the truly free credit report. So the word free does not mean what it used to.
The word simple doesn’t mean what it used to before the internet. When I was setting up Jeff’ song of the day I found video after video telling everyone how simple it is to set up a blob. One video said that it was so simple and easy that it should only take 5 minutes to set a blog up. I been working with this blog for over a week and one thing that a blog is not, that’s simple. Who knew the internet could be so complicated? —- that would be me Simple Jeff!