I too get irrationally annoyed when writers fail to make the distinction. There was an episode of Reply All a while back where they analyzed the “emotions of the Internet” … using Twitter. Twitter literally exists to maximize negative emotions! In no way was it representative of the experience (unless you’re a tech writer).
I still feel like the social web has sucked in a lot of things that used to exist outside of it.
Like blogs. I feel like the blog world was much healthier before most of the content moved out of independent websites to a unified dump of social shit.
The article should be titled ‘Why social media isn’t fun anymore’, because that’s all the author is talking about.
I too get irrationally annoyed when writers fail to make the distinction. There was an episode of Reply All a while back where they analyzed the “emotions of the Internet” … using Twitter. Twitter literally exists to maximize negative emotions! In no way was it representative of the experience (unless you’re a tech writer).
I still feel like the social web has sucked in a lot of things that used to exist outside of it.
Like blogs. I feel like the blog world was much healthier before most of the content moved out of independent websites to a unified dump of social shit.