I think this is because the internet we have known developed in the era of free money. But money isn’t free and the bill is due. So we revert to a tried and true mean: Gossip, Rumors, and Drivel. Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over. By Kyle Chayka October 9, 2023 Lately on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, my timeline is filled with vapid posts orbiting the same few topics like water whirlpooling down a drain. Last week, for instance, the chatter was dominated by talk of Taylor Swift’s romance with the football player Travis Kelce. If you tried to talk about anything else, the platform’s algorithmic feed seemed to sweep you into irrelevance. Users who pay for Elon Musk’s blue-check verification system now dominate the platform, often with far-right-wing commentary and outright disinformation; Musk rewards these users monetarily based on the engagement that their posts drive, regardless of their veracity. The decay of the system is apparent in the spread of fake news and mislabelled videos related to Hamas’s attack on Israel. Elsewhere online, things are similarly bleak. Instagram’s feed pushes months-old posts and product ads instead of photos from friends. Google search is cluttered with junky results, and S.E.O. hackers have ruined the trick of adding “Reddit” to searches to find human-generated answers. Meanwhile, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, in its latest bid for relevance, is reportedly developing artificial-intelligence chatbots with various “sassy” personalities that will be added to its apps, including a role-playing D. & D. Dungeon Master based on Snoop Dogg. The prospect of interacting with such a character sounds about as appealing as texting with one of those spam bots that asks you if they have the right number. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-the-internet-isnt-fun-anymore
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Sounds like the writer has become jaded or can't find shiny new things that matched the novelty of old. Can't blame'm since the internet companies promised and continue to promise a lot more. I posted this elsewhere, but AI will continue the trend of algos. Transcript of timestamp: It really is a continuation of shitty tech giant behavior from one of the links @J.R. referenced.
My mom lost a dog in the 1970s and put an ad in the local newspaper. People called her repeatedly to tell her they had found the dog, but that they were doing "things" to the dog as they spoke... torturing the dog... cutting it into pieces... and worse. Eventually my mom found the dog and it was fine--the calls were fake. When I think of my experiences dealing with people on places like eBay, Craigslist, FB marketplace, and dating sites, it's thankfully never been quite that bad. But it's been close on more occasions than I care to think about. Many people just suck. Always have. Some people just take it to another level.
