Can we tag article on external website as fluff? Jokes aside, it really is quite a shallow article. And to put a stone on top of it, it's not the internet, it's they he hit 30. It's like a second...
Can we tag article on external website as fluff?
Jokes aside, it really is quite a shallow article.
And to put a stone on top of it, it's not the internet, it's they he hit 30.
It's like a second puberty. Instead of changing from kid to young adult, you change from young adult to grumpy adult.
Seriously, I don't know how much more of a "serious" comment I can write about that :)
I feel you man. It'll pass, I'm class '82 and the 30th has passed already. You find you're balance, the only big change is much less tolerance for BS :)
I feel you man. It'll pass, I'm class '82 and the 30th has passed already. You find you're balance, the only big change is much less tolerance for BS :)
I think I've already got a decent balance, but as with many things, sometimes that balance gets thrown for whatever reason. I can definitely say that turning 30 feels a lot different than I...
I think I've already got a decent balance, but as with many things, sometimes that balance gets thrown for whatever reason. I can definitely say that turning 30 feels a lot different than I expected even a year ago.
Yeah... been feeling this one a LOT lately. (30s here) It reminds me of that analogy that everyone is only born with a very finite number of fucks to give. We use them liberally when we’re young,...
much less tolerance for bs
Yeah... been feeling this one a LOT lately. (30s here)
It reminds me of that analogy that everyone is only born with a very finite number of fucks to give. We use them liberally when we’re young, but we tend to hoard them as we get older.
All too relatable. I think the author here is a little hesitant to blame the internet itself at the end there, and takes it as a personal thing about the way they look at the internet, but I don't...
All too relatable. I think the author here is a little hesitant to blame the internet itself at the end there, and takes it as a personal thing about the way they look at the internet, but I don't agree. (Edit: by the end of my rant, I am now unsure if I agree lmao)
I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but Reddit and Facebook and the like have ruined the internet for me in a lot of ways. There's so little variety or customization. We go to hubs and do what they allow us to, and every content creator has to work within their rules and setup. Other systems used to try and prevent this, Myspace was a "hub" but at the very least it was a hub where creativity went into every user's profile...both allowing real creative expression and making the experience different all the time. Tumblr's probably the only major site keeping that alive, but even that is hidden and a lot of users end up using it like twitter without the character limit rather than a network of blogs. It's also really bad for finding blogs you might be interested in, in my experience.
This is getting in off-topic territory, but I'm really bitter about this. I don't want a stream of funny images and I don't even really want link aggregators despite spending my time on one right now. It's like...I can't find cool things on the internet anymore. All the cool or funny stories that you found years ago that circulate and become part of a community's collective consciousness? I've heard all of them. Yeah, I read about "more magic" years ago. I know you all REALLY like the Johnny Cash cover of "Hurt". I heard the broken arm story reddit, ha ha. I've been there, and now it feels like everywhere I go it's just upkeep. There's nothing left except new news, on which the comments will all respond in the same terms and using the same structure that they did for the last one. I'm not pretending I'm better, I've fallen into all of this too.
I don't know, is there just nothing left? Have I spent so much time on the internet that nothing can really interest me anymore? Have I squeezed it dry, or is the good stuff really harder to find or just gone? Where can I find an anime blog where some 14 year old tries to sell me on their grand theory of how art works by way of three 80s OVAs? That's what I want. Even if it's dumb and completely unsubstantiated, it's a thousand times more interesting than what my time online has become. I'm not even old! I'm 20 and this isn't even a new problem for me...that doesn't bode well for the future. Ugh.
I could keep going and get to where I'm really bitter, but I'll spare yall. At least I can hit random on Wikipedia and find cool stuff on the off chance I don't get a town in India.
ive been around awhile. i like to think i have a lot more experience than the guy in that article, and all i can say is; the internet didnt let you down, youre just a boring person. the internet...
ive been around awhile. i like to think i have a lot more experience than the guy in that article, and all i can say is; the internet didnt let you down, youre just a boring person.
the internet is a tool, people. it is an analog of the world in general. it is what you make of it. the internet shifted from self-starting, computer-interested explorers to shiftless content-eaters.
if your world is boring, its prolly not the world, its your perspective. be the change you want to see
Thanks all for the interesting comments here. I posted this because I feel much the same as the author does. In the past few years it feels like the internet has shrunk for me. Until I deactivated...
Thanks all for the interesting comments here. I posted this because I feel much the same as the author does. In the past few years it feels like the internet has shrunk for me. Until I deactivated Facebook I spent much of my online time compulsively ping ponging back and forth between FB and Twitter, with some side trips to Youtube and Wikipedia. Reddit helped for a while with finding cool and more diverse content again, but as many have noted here on Tildes, the content on Reddit is resembling the other social media sites more and more. Anyway, for me the internet has mostly become four or five "gatekeeper" sites and I rarely wander away from those, even though I know I should.
I somewhat disagree with the comments placing the blame on the author's age. I'm in my 40s now. I feel like I hit the peak of my "finding cool stuff online" phase when I was in my early 30s. There was all kinds of cool stuff happening from 2004 to 2008 or so. But now when I look back in my old folders of bookmarks most of those sites I used to read regularly have stopped publishing or disappeared entirely. All the music "sharity" blogs I used to love are gone. Who needs them in the age of Youtube? Only the political blogs kept publishing.
I guess the point here is that the social media sites fundamentally changed my web surfing habits in an unhealthy way. It's my own fault for letting it happen, but to be honest I never saw it coming. But the rise of FB/Twitter/Youtube/etc. also made a lot of the cool sites I used to enjoy superfluous. And it definitely feels like something of value has been lost.
I'm not sure if it's my age, or if the overall general content and community dialogue has just declined. I'm guessing it's a combination of both. Maybe the allure of just dicking around on the...
I'm not sure if it's my age, or if the overall general content and community dialogue has just declined. I'm guessing it's a combination of both. Maybe the allure of just dicking around on the internet has just worn off.
Regardless, if you're bored on the computer that's when you should log off and read a good book or do something else. The internet will still be there when you get back.
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Can we tag article on external website as fluff?
Jokes aside, it really is quite a shallow article.
And to put a stone on top of it, it's not the internet, it's they he hit 30.
It's like a second puberty. Instead of changing from kid to young adult, you change from young adult to grumpy adult.
Seriously, I don't know how much more of a "serious" comment I can write about that :)
Having just turned 30 about three months ago, you hit it. I still like my silly stuff, but I don't have as much time or energy for it.
I feel you man. It'll pass, I'm class '82 and the 30th has passed already. You find you're balance, the only big change is much less tolerance for BS :)
I think I've already got a decent balance, but as with many things, sometimes that balance gets thrown for whatever reason. I can definitely say that turning 30 feels a lot different than I expected even a year ago.
Yeah... been feeling this one a LOT lately. (30s here)
It reminds me of that analogy that everyone is only born with a very finite number of fucks to give. We use them liberally when we’re young, but we tend to hoard them as we get older.
All too relatable. I think the author here is a little hesitant to blame the internet itself at the end there, and takes it as a personal thing about the way they look at the internet, but I don't agree. (Edit: by the end of my rant, I am now unsure if I agree lmao)
I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but Reddit and Facebook and the like have ruined the internet for me in a lot of ways. There's so little variety or customization. We go to hubs and do what they allow us to, and every content creator has to work within their rules and setup. Other systems used to try and prevent this, Myspace was a "hub" but at the very least it was a hub where creativity went into every user's profile...both allowing real creative expression and making the experience different all the time. Tumblr's probably the only major site keeping that alive, but even that is hidden and a lot of users end up using it like twitter without the character limit rather than a network of blogs. It's also really bad for finding blogs you might be interested in, in my experience.
This is getting in off-topic territory, but I'm really bitter about this. I don't want a stream of funny images and I don't even really want link aggregators despite spending my time on one right now. It's like...I can't find cool things on the internet anymore. All the cool or funny stories that you found years ago that circulate and become part of a community's collective consciousness? I've heard all of them. Yeah, I read about "more magic" years ago. I know you all REALLY like the Johnny Cash cover of "Hurt". I heard the broken arm story reddit, ha ha. I've been there, and now it feels like everywhere I go it's just upkeep. There's nothing left except new news, on which the comments will all respond in the same terms and using the same structure that they did for the last one. I'm not pretending I'm better, I've fallen into all of this too.
I don't know, is there just nothing left? Have I spent so much time on the internet that nothing can really interest me anymore? Have I squeezed it dry, or is the good stuff really harder to find or just gone? Where can I find an anime blog where some 14 year old tries to sell me on their grand theory of how art works by way of three 80s OVAs? That's what I want. Even if it's dumb and completely unsubstantiated, it's a thousand times more interesting than what my time online has become. I'm not even old! I'm 20 and this isn't even a new problem for me...that doesn't bode well for the future. Ugh.
I could keep going and get to where I'm really bitter, but I'll spare yall. At least I can hit random on Wikipedia and find cool stuff on the off chance I don't get a town in India.
ive been around awhile. i like to think i have a lot more experience than the guy in that article, and all i can say is; the internet didnt let you down, youre just a boring person.
the internet is a tool, people. it is an analog of the world in general. it is what you make of it. the internet shifted from self-starting, computer-interested explorers to shiftless content-eaters.
if your world is boring, its prolly not the world, its your perspective. be the change you want to see
Thanks all for the interesting comments here. I posted this because I feel much the same as the author does. In the past few years it feels like the internet has shrunk for me. Until I deactivated Facebook I spent much of my online time compulsively ping ponging back and forth between FB and Twitter, with some side trips to Youtube and Wikipedia. Reddit helped for a while with finding cool and more diverse content again, but as many have noted here on Tildes, the content on Reddit is resembling the other social media sites more and more. Anyway, for me the internet has mostly become four or five "gatekeeper" sites and I rarely wander away from those, even though I know I should.
I somewhat disagree with the comments placing the blame on the author's age. I'm in my 40s now. I feel like I hit the peak of my "finding cool stuff online" phase when I was in my early 30s. There was all kinds of cool stuff happening from 2004 to 2008 or so. But now when I look back in my old folders of bookmarks most of those sites I used to read regularly have stopped publishing or disappeared entirely. All the music "sharity" blogs I used to love are gone. Who needs them in the age of Youtube? Only the political blogs kept publishing.
I guess the point here is that the social media sites fundamentally changed my web surfing habits in an unhealthy way. It's my own fault for letting it happen, but to be honest I never saw it coming. But the rise of FB/Twitter/Youtube/etc. also made a lot of the cool sites I used to enjoy superfluous. And it definitely feels like something of value has been lost.
I'm not sure if it's my age, or if the overall general content and community dialogue has just declined. I'm guessing it's a combination of both. Maybe the allure of just dicking around on the internet has just worn off.
Regardless, if you're bored on the computer that's when you should log off and read a good book or do something else. The internet will still be there when you get back.