I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore
I think a lot of people here are missing the point. Yeah, there&#x27;s a lot more content to consume now. However, it doesn&#x27;t feel like a community... it feels more like watching reruns on TBS.<p>I remember making actual friends on message boards. Friends I eventually met in the real world. I don&#x27;t think relationships like that are really formed anymore. Most of social media now is a broadcast, not a conversation. People (myself included) want upvotes, retweets and more followers. And now, real identities are involved, so they have to be professional.<p>Back when I started using the internet, there were no &quot;celebrities&quot;. At most, there were community leaders, and their &quot;reach&quot; was within the same order of magnitude of the rest of the community. And to be one of those leaders, you needed to learn HTML and build a community the hard way. Nobody was trying to get famous, get more likes, etc. They just talked and made stuff and shared content and learned.<p>Sure, maybe it is just an age thing, and nothing has really changed. But I don&#x27;t know... I feel like the Internet used to be something special, and now it feels like flipping through TV channels in your office break room.