The World Wide Web celebrated its 25th anniversary this year, and although the reasons to love the Internet seem infinite, there are also plenty of things to loathe about it.
"Can you imagine starting a project 25 years ago? Not all projects succeed -- no other project has ever succeeded like this one," web inventor Tim Berners-Lee said Monday night at the Webby Awards in New York. "The sum is much greater than the parts."
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But some of those parts aren't all that good. While celebrities and brands honored the best of the web at the Webbys, Mashable asked several celebrities to tell us about the worst of the web. Here's what they said on the Webby Awards red carpet:
1. 'It can consume your life'
George Takei (Star Trek actor, author, LGBT advocate): "It can be oppressive. It can consume your life. So we've got to learn to discipline it. Some bosses are expecting people to respond to emails at 11 p.m. There needs to be a time for us to be ourselves -- human beings. We have to be the masters of this. We can't let it be the all-consuming, all-devouring creature to which we lose our humanity."
2. Anonymity fuels unnecessary hate
Shannen Doherty (90210 and Charmed actress): "I think people feel like, just because they're sitting behind a computer and they're anonymous, that they can be very mean. I don't quite really understand people's need to be so cruel to not only each other, but to animals and to the planet in general."
3. The web can be painfully slow sometimes
David Jude Jolicoeur of De La Soul (hip-hop group): "My least favorite thing about the Internet is when it gets stuck, and that little thing keeps turning."
4. So much news, so little time.
Lawrence Lessig (Harvard professor, Creative Commons founder): "News stations migrating to the net like CNN and NBC. Too slow. Too junky. Too packed."
5. Twitter trolls causing trouble
Jason Collins (NBA center): "There are some people, especially on Twitter, who think that they are anonymous or that they can say anything that they want to, but I've just learned to immediately blocked them, and go on with my life."
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