A web for the worse
More and more I feel like I want to drop of the Internet. It’s not what it used to be. New services feel forced and uninventive. Most content feels like high volume, low quality ad sponsored click bait aimed at driving revenue through tricked clicks. Either that or it’s content marketing — content made to seem like it will help you solve your problem, except the authors don’t know the answer, so it’s just filled with fluff and half truths.
Earlier, it felt like I was able to stay ahead by keeping up date on the latest story, tools and trends within my trade. But I don’t feel like that any more. I feels like all the new stuff I read, don’t help me. It doesn’t push anything ahead. It feels like we’ve stagnated and perhaps are even in decline, like 2010 was peak Internet.
I’m struggling getting my point across because it isn’t one thing, it’s more of a feeling that something isn’t as great as it used to be.
The internet technology seems to have lost its way. I don’t feel like it is improving any more. It is only degrading. More tracking, more analytics, more growth, more UX, more design, more content, more marketing, more social, more, faster, better, bigger, nicer, smoother, slicker, quicker.
Yet it feels ineffective, empty, alien, hollow, impersonal, mass produced, time consuming, energy draining and mostly a waste.
The internet used to inspire and ignite me, but today it exhausts me.
So maybe it’s not the internet. Maybe it’s me. Maybe I got old.
