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Just wondering what the older members here, or members who've been on the internet a long time think about this.
Admittedly, I used to be a net addict. Couldn't stay away. From 1995 all the way to 2010 I was on the internet for hours a day every day. Now I basically have to 'force' myself to log on! I took a long break from the internet due to health problems, and then running a pub in the dreaded 'real life' I just had no time.
Now my pub closed down (bad business to be in these days!) I was so bored, so decided to check out a few of the old haunts. I realized something – I missed communities. Missed being part of one, missed running one. I've been lurking around a few of my old e-haunts this past few days and………. I'm bored out of my mind.
Don't know if it's just because I'm older, don't know if it's because of taking a break I'm finding it difficult to re-integrate, I also feel like I've lost part of my 'e-personality' and part of who I am. I've been reading some old posts and comments by me from 5+ years ago etc and realized I'm a completely different person! Humour is different, views are different. I've found the more I age the less I make people laugh too LOL. Maybe because back then I was just such a gobby little git who was so extreme it just became a humourous parody. I seem to have lost all that.
That and e-friends have moved on, lost contact, just don't seem the same any more.
Quite strange.
No I haven't slept, yes I am in deep thought LOL.
So I'm posting on forums, trying to re-connect with old faces and e-friends, trying to get my style and e-personality back, hopefully it'll inject some e-life back into me so I can become a vocal presence in online communities again!
I think sometimes the internet can be overwhelming and that's why we need smaller communities, to be part of something. The web is too big for one person. It needs to be broken down into smaller parts, and that's what communities do.
As for getting bored with the internet, for me that would be close to impossible with the wealth of information out there. That being said, sometimes I do find myself staring at the screen not knowing where to go next!
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I was just about to say something similar, I find something new every time I go onto the internet. I have learnt a lot from it, and I am constantly doing so, the is an infinite fountain of knowledge waiting to be tapped if you know the right places to look (ie not wikipaedia lol) although I think I'd lose serious interest if there was nothing else I could learn.
However, saying that I have noticed a lot of communities I used to be in over the years have either fallen apart, the “old boys network” vanishes never to be traced again….or worst of all becomes and epic bitchfest. I used to do promotional art of sorts for an underground collectible and it meant that I used to be on a few forums as well as pretty much every social network you could imagine, and I found that social networking can get rather boring…and that the friends I have made online I tend to contact with other methods like Kik and Whatsapp Messenger. Other people I have comlpetely lost touch with (which I deeply regret) as they seem to have vanished without trace.
So yeah…six and two thress I suppose….at least places like Insomnialand are like a “Virtual Cheers”….sometimes you want to go where everybody knows you name 🙂
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