| Comments like this, full with a longing for a simpler time, amuse me. No one's making anyone communicate in a "lonely" way. If you don't like it, you are free to demand your preferred means of communication. What you'll find, however, is that people generally like it. "I tweet in my dreams," someone I know one said. The truth of the matter is, constant communication is valuable. Not in the market cap type of way but as a type of human interaction. It matters to people. It helps them organize parties, revolutions, their lives around a stream of current data. Is it distracting and addicting? Yes, it can be. But that's not a problem with the technology. If you lack the self-discipline to live in this deluge of information, guess what - help is one Google search away. I guess my overall point is that the bandwidth of human communication has only ever been growing. It's not gonna stop now, so there's no point in longing for a long gone idyllic past. P.S. I understand the hatred for dopamine triggers, wrapped in HTML. Meditation helps. P.P.S. I'm making an assumption that people willfully choose a medium as a basis for discourse. That's not the case most of the time. I believe everyone should be made aware of how the medium they're using influences their thoughts and actions. I'm all up for having more media, though. |
> I understand the hatred for dopamine triggers, wrapped in HTML. Meditation helps.
You are quite the brilliant wordsmith, I can't wait for the next opportunity to use the phrase "dopamine triggers wrapped in HTML".