if it helps, the stuff you are talking about here seems to be a theme gaining force within the past few weeks in other posts i've read. people are dissatisfied with what the internet offers, or no longer offers, while longing for the "good old days" when there was a sense of communication. people are posting less often and drifting away from personal content, and then having a small flood of personal content that gets expressed largely as frustration. i feel it too: does the nice stuff balance out all the pointless stuff? you know, like you were saying about youtube... people commenting on comments that are just repeating old comments. but i guess like most things it's like there's tons of shit out there and you wade through it to get to the gems.
that's the thing, i'm just worn out with useless opinions and the option to type something immediately for everyone to see. everything now is reduced to quick one-liner info feeds. i even miss those rambling blobs of text without any use of indentation. and they're not funny as before. and when i first went online in 1995 it was child-free. now it's full of children, or some kind of mentally deficient equivalent. i'd rather go out for a walk than participate in all this.
hee hee. sorry for laughing, but it is WITH you. you sum it up so well with those icons that let you rate some idiot opinion (not even a twitter, but a mere click). i crack up when there's a trail of empty fan comments each of them gathering thumbs up, and then somebody says something mildly more thought out like "well, i love them too, but this song doesn't showcase their strengths," and there are suddenly all these thumbs down. do people ever return to their comments to check out those figures? i guess they might if they're still in grammar school.
i haven't even went over to facebook. nothing against it in a direct sense, but like you, i'm getting weary of the dead end so many sites take one down and would like to eventually have fewer rather than more reasons to go online. live journal remains my favorite because i have at least met interesting people here.
thank god for embedded videos - i don't even have to risk reading toehead stuff like that. i admit the closest i get to smartass internet humour is giving thumbs down to well-formed and structured opinions i agree with.
you're the one that persuaded me to go to lj and fb. i miss those days too. i miss the fun we had when we'd raid someone's journal by random and then never go there again. yes, let's keep lj alive by writing more comments.
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i feel it too: does the nice stuff balance out all the pointless stuff? you know, like you were saying about youtube... people commenting on comments that are just repeating old comments. but i guess like most things it's like there's tons of shit out there and you wade through it to get to the gems.
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i haven't even went over to facebook. nothing against it in a direct sense, but like you, i'm getting weary of the dead end so many sites take one down and would like to eventually have fewer rather than more reasons to go online. live journal remains my favorite because i have at least met interesting people here.
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