i have to wonder at what point marriages will fail because the husband forgot to friend the wife?
Web 2.4 seems to be increasingly minutia based. Consider that folks use Twitter to tell folks of various activities, thoughts, and bowel movements they may be having at any particular moment, which can be bad enough. Then we get to the various aggregation sites like MyBlogLog and FriendFeed that collect up what tracks you've listened to, comments you've posted, and well, everything else you've done online short of the number of times you clicked on the iPhone ad hoping that the price has dropped again this week (and the only reason that's not included is because nobody made a feed of that yet).
One wonders about the level of digital noise we're creating. i'm just as culpable as anyone else is. i mean, sure, i might be interested in photos you've recently posted up to Flickr, passingly interested in the stuff you've added to delicious, and not really interested in the fact that you have Afternoon Delight on endless loop at last.fm.
i know that there's some effort being made to filter the noise and produce a more clean level of… mindless personal minutia that can be combined together with other elements of social trivia to further emphasize how my a person's life is, but in an era where there are guidelines in reducing the amount of interpersonal communication, one has to wonder at what point this all fits in.
i suppose that in the general maturation of the web we've passed the three-year-old "So-and- so-and- so-and then the monkey? he grew real big? and then he- then he- then he jumped up and down REALLY fast and - and - and that's how i think of major political parties and the major technical companies backing them? and then - and then…" to the point where we're all 13 year old girls with iPhones who like totally have got to tell Suzy and Bobbi and Jamie and Steve the fact that they so totally love that new SproutCore thing that they heard Billie and Julie and Mikey were totally into.
Me? i like to think that i'm living ahead of the curb in the later stages of the Interweb 36.9. The one where i stand out front of my website and scream at you kids to stay off my LAN.
nice to see that this topic is finally getting some airtime. Keeping hush-hush about it
doesn't make it go away… BTW, here's some more info about bowel movement colors for those interested.
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The first and the last sentence just made me realize you're actually a poet. Horrible puns? Yes. Still, very poetic.
As I've said before, I’ve tried subscribing to the combined FriendFeed feed of all the people I’ve subscribed to on the site, but it’s like being fed by a firehose. Even subscribing to single people's feed was too much. Truth is, I just don't care enough about anyone to follow his or her every digital move. There is a very small number of people I follow very closely, like my BFF's. but even with them I noticed that it's usually enough to just talk to them and subscribe to their blogs and/or tumblelogs. If they really like a song on last.fm or a picture on Flickr, they're going to tell me anyways.
That said, please follow me on FriendFeed. I beg you! I need the feeling of getting constant attention.