“On Sunday evening, I deleted Twitter and Tumblr off my phone, and besides for a five minute relapse this afternoon, they have stayed deleted.
It was all just starting to feel too much like an eating disorder or like academic mania— being preoccupied with thoughts you don’t care about, compulsively seeking information that is at once overwhelming and boring, soliciting the approval of people you don’t know, relying on your own anxiety for stimulation.”
Yep – seen that. That went around months ago. Yep. Seen it. That’s Old. Man, Where have you been?
Something that now shits me about the interne tis the concept that you can seemingly no longer discover something and surprise your friends with it, as the likelihood was they’ve “already seen it.” The very concept of the Internet, the idea that all information is as readily available to everyone equally (except say, China) means the only unique thing a person can grab onto is if they “saw it first.”
This notion of ‘first’ is what seems to keep people addicted to RSS feeds and Twitter- and trawling through their Facebook feed to see what comments or links their friends have posted in an effort to be ‘first.’
