I work on the web for a living, and am not the first to notice a sad trend. Less people are developing their own websites or writing on their own blogs. They’re using social networking sites like Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter. You might not lose any sleep over that bitchy chick hanging out on Facebook and Twitter at the expense of her blog, but it makes me sad. It also makes Jonathan Zittrain sad, as he explains in convincingly great detail in The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It
Because I make a living on the internet, some of these posts will be about the internet in general, creating websites, and making money on the web. Others will include interesting news stories and websites I come across…but all in easily digestible chunks you could read on the toilet…if you don’t mind your legs falling asleep. If you’ve got anything of interest you’d like to share, please leave a comment or send me an email.
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I totally agree with this sad trend. I have a teenage daughter who sometimes sends me a text message, but when reading it, I have to call her to explain me what she is writing, because I really don’t understand the ‘language’ and abbreviations they are using.
Another related sad trend is the email culture at my office. I got daily spammed with so many CC emails (including large attachments), that I created a rule that I only will read emails which are send to me using the ‘TO’.
Even colleagues that have their desk about 20 feet away send emails to me, and when they do I ask “why don’t you just ‘talk’ to me?”
And I have colleagues that send emails and then walk into my office and ask “did you read my email”?
Am I at the wrong planet or are they?
Maybe a nice topic for your next post
Wait, aren’t you contributing to the crisis? Now all of those iPhone users will be distracted from their daily lives to read the latest ‘this too went down the drain’ post on readingonthetoilet.com! Addictive stuff.
Bart: Good points. But, I find email to be far better in the sense that it can be high quality, and answered whenever you have time.
Mario: Possibly! But if they’re sitting on the toilet they’ve got nothing better to do.
I have to say the best phone conversations that I’ve had are….on the crapper. Maybe you should try it sometime.
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