Spread it Around

What is the internet for?

I know it has millions of uses, but I'm not sure what the majority of people use the majority of their time on the internet for.

Email is useful. That takes time. But not much time. Looking up things on IMDB or Wikipedia. That doesn't take up much time either.

I think the internet has developed a kind of self-sustaining element, where it makes us spend time online for the purpose of simply being online. It's ouroborous again.

The social networking sites are just there to keep you online, because other people might be online, and you don't want to miss them. There's nothing to say really, except to talk about what it's like to use the internet. Each silly message or Super Wall post is just waving a flag, letting people know 'we're here, we're here!'

The bulk of my internet usage is looking at wrestling news and message boards which is, of course, pointless, but at least it has the front of external stimuli.

Blogs are the finest example of the cyber-snake eating itself. They trade slightly interesting external sources, and broadcast them as something that should be seen, just because they're on the internet. I mean, creepy playgrounds are slightly interesting; food looking different from its packaging is slightly interesting; but it doesn't mean it should be the basis of an worldwide dialogue. But it is.

I don't want to sound critical, because I love all this stuff. The internet should allow for trivial stuff as well as discussion of important things. It's like a microcosm of life: some important shit, loads of unimportant shit.

But I still can't help but fear the day that everyone says:

"Huh. So someone made a gourmet meal from stuff bought at $0.99 stores? Why do I care? Why am I wasting my time?"

And they'll all log off, like rats off a sinking ship (if they floated on a log).

What will I do with my life?

But the internet will survive.

It will survive doing the thing it was invented for: a giant porn depository.

I think we'll all sleep a little safer knowing we have that safety blanket to fall back on (even if the blanket is encrusted with various fluids).