http://www.metafilter.com/tags/internetbullshit Posts tagged with 'internetbullshit' at MetaFilter. Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:47:21 -0800 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:47:21 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/64714/lively%2Dtrivia <a href="http://www.jonathancarroll.com/indexframes.html">He said</a> "From what I can see, there are basically two types of people who use the Internet regularly-- the ones who write blogs and participate in sites like Flickr and MySpace, and there are the ones who only lurk and read what others have written. The problems with the ones who 'participate' are too many of them think anything that happens in their lives will interest the world. What they had for dinner at the restaurant, what stores they visited when they went shopping yesterday, who they talked to on the phone. The Internet has in unexpected and important ways democratized the airwaves. But in doing that, it also opened the floodgates of superficial, uninteresting sludge that fills up most peoples' lives." I had written something similar to those sentiments a long time ago on this blog so it was interesting to hear similar conclusions coming from someone else. He also said one of the distressing things he realized via web surfing was how lonely middle class people are and how much need there is in them to download the trivia of their lives on someone. From the website of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon_Carroll">Jonathan Carroll</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64714 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:47:21 -0800 blogs internetbullshit jonathancarroll trivialcrap landis