peaceinthedarkness

I finally realized why the internet has almost completely lost its luster for me: the thing that kept me online were the internet fora — the places where people actually talked to each other! Due to the different time zones, there were always new posts when I logged on, and when I wrote something, people actually answered, and we had a conversation!

Nowadays, the only sites that come close to it are Reddit and Ecosophia, but on Reddit, I rarely get an answer, and if so, no conversation develops from it. Ecosophia is the same, only worse. And on Dreamwidth, I almost never get a reaction if I post something there. Even when I comment on someone else’s post, I might get an answer from the poster, but not from the other commenters, and then the thread dies down at that point.

I have no idea where all the people went who could spin a conversation for dozens, sometimes hundreds of posts. Maybe they were all reprogrammed to either hit the ‘like’-button, or to not react at all.

And maybe this development is good for me... makes me stay offline and live in the real world again. Though looking at the real world... uh... well, there's books to hide in...