the interwebs

[eor]

I was an early adopter of the Internet and was using it before graphical browsers got a foothold. The modes have evolved. Mailing lists and email migrated to home pages and web links. HTML went from being a way to publish text to a way to express yourself then to a framework for supporting unlimited advertising laced with a modicum of content.

I have yet to lower myself to putting up with Facebook's ads on a regular basis. Livejournal is a hollow shell of what it used to be. Dreamwidth tries, but for me it just doesn't have the momentum necessary to make it feel like social platform and well as a writing platform. Don't get me started on Twitter.

I guess I'm kind of done with the whole Internet thing in its present incarnation. Does the current trend of platforms that require multibillion dollar advertising revenue streams serve the people? Or do the people serve the platforms?

I don't know what I want to do yet, but I'm restless. It may involve posting here or it may involve some other mode. Who knows, I may try to revive some throwback technology like email or writing on paper. Would you like to play?

Comments

[camwyn]

Email and writing on paper are both fine with me, fwiw.