digital camera's again.

INTERFACE YOUR LIFE.

As the days of web 1.0 leave us behind, 2.0 finds itself stuck in the shadows, and web 3.0 emerges to resounding cheers of glee and approval; we may find ourselves, "outdating" ourselves in our own worlds and surroundings. So finally my inbox is clutter-free, and my homepage has exactly what I need to see, nothing more, nothing less. I get the news I need, the weather report, the sports scores from specific teams, etc.. and I'm never burdened by a blockade of distractions right? Well usually wrong. And that's point number 2 about internet and digital presence and perception. Point number one happens to be about your everyday life. How often lately have you thought about organizing your personal space? Your room, your desk at the office.. the route you take to work, or to stop by the store on the way back? My argument is that people are forgetting their old routines that were efficient for getting things done in the everyday world.. the real world that is. Who cares if you see a target on the way home from work, you've got target.com at your fingertips when you get up to the apartment and grab a cool beer from the fridge. Maybe you'll waste 30 minutes browsing and not even buying what you'd intended upon.. but who has the time for regret when that overstock.com ad you clicked 5 minutes ago got you interested in digital cameras again!

Why twitter sucks

About the attention span of the average 21st century digital boy.
About the insatiable demand to shine.
Why you can't succeed in a day, and succeed the next.

precursor: I only use boy in reference to the Bad Religion song that has allowed the phrase to stick in my mind over the years; I do not aim to focus this topic on males alone; for it is a gender universal phenomenon.

I can only begin writing this with the admittance that I am currently a victim of, "a stratified sense of being" created by the endless jetsam and flotsam propagated within my browser windows and limited only by the ever expanding internet itself.
I find the line break between thoughts necessary as a way to keep writing without losing my overall train of thought. Perhaps as a side benefit, I'll retain some of your attention should you share the illness I have.
How nice of microsoft word to automatically add a space between paragraphs of the same format... is there even such a thing as a paragraph anymore? In just the letters and characters of this one, I've gone way beyond a standard, "tweet".
(God forbid the extra 50 characters, and all I've got is 2 and a half lines. Isn't a paragraph supposed to have four?!?)


Anyways

Why Twitter Sucks
Most of us know why twitter sucks. I'll spare you my own opinion in order to give you just that.
If you're still reading, thankyou. Well I guess that's all I get.... (had this been a tweet or whatever)
I'll summarize this as a bit of a treatise on the declining attention span of the average kid on the streets. Make note that the average kid no longer grows up on the streets, or anywhere else physically. The 21st century digital boy grows up on the internet. The things he grows up with are facebook, youtube, twitter; and I'll go ahead and include the next, "nameless for now", breakout social network. I imagine the same thoughts will hold true in its case. I'm not going to be the guy that tries to make dramatic metaphors for the decline of society i.e. "kids don't play catch with a ball, they play catch with text messages" or something. The fact is, I could try and be on the bleeding edge of this sort of criticism, but it's already being done.. probably 3 seconds ago; while I actually spend time trying to prepare some sort of a new argument.
In my eyes, twitter was a necessary evil in our path to becoming connected citizens of the world. It showed us that we can communicate in real-time on a massive scale; and that even our smallest thought of thoughts will be noticed if we can get it out there fast enough. Twitter has allowed many would-be-bloggers to simply get out there and write something. It has especially empowered those who couldn't be bothered to sign up for an actual blog, much less go out and have a conversation with somebody in the real world about a topic that interests them.
While I'm the ever fan of newfound connectedness and flow between people who need to share ideas, I can't help but find the norm of this type of communication trivial as an initial observation. Submitting a tweet not only cuts of your creative juices and never allows you to get into the, "flow" of being creative or coming up with a complete thought; it celebrates the simple accomplishment of stating what's on your mind; if you even call that an accomplishment. Once you hit, submit or tweet or whatever, you're allowed to sit back, and wait for responses to the fact that you had an amazing taco for dinner, but it didn't have enough cheese, i love cheese, monterey jack is the best, oh I loved that show with that guy.. what was it? Rescue rangers! aww yeah! here's a youtube video of that shit from back in the day! Awesome!
So all we have now is a free-association type of jetsam/flotsam. And where does it get us back to? Maybe the next bag of cheetos. Every time you are interrupted by a tweet alert your focus goes somewhere entirely different. IN fact, where is your focus at all? Can you even consider yourself having been focused for the last 3 years ??? fuck.
And so I say, "Do not let yourself be limited by the internet medium which happens to take the web by storm; for you are only limited by the medium in which you choose to take the internet by storm."

INTERFACE YOUR LIFE.

INTERFACE YOUR LIFE.

As the days of web 1.0 leave us behind, 2.0 finds itself stuck in the shadows, and web 3.0 emerges to resounding cheers of glee and approval; we may find ourselves, "outdating" ourselves in our own worlds and surroundings. So finally my inbox is clutter-free, and my homepage has exactly what I need to see, nothing more, nothing less. I get the news I need, the weather report, the sports scores from specific teams, etc.. and I'm never burdened by a blockade of distractions right? Well usually wrong. And that's point number 2 about internet and digital presence and perception. Point number one happens to be about your everyday life. How often lately have you thought about organizing your personal space? Your room, your desk at the office.. the route you take to work, or to stop by the store on the way back? My argument is that people are forgetting their old routines that were efficient for getting things done in the everyday world.. the real world that is. Who cares if you see a target on the way home from work, you've got target.com at your fingertips when you get up to the apartment and grab a cool beer from the fridge. Maybe you'll waste 30 minutes browsing and not even buying what you'd intended upon.. but who has the time for regret when that overstock.com ad you clicked 5 minutes ago got you interested in digital cameras again!