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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Truth is, you never get out of the funk, man. The web used to be this place where creative, intelligent, eccentric people could come together and, you know, do stuff. Now... Now it's all "social media." The phrase smacks of vainglorious backbiting. Social media, indeed. It has completely replaced normal social interaction, has all but eradicated the idea of meeting someone new that you actually have nothing in common with, and has removed us, collectively, from that great big ball we live in and has placed us squarely and succinctly into little squares with a list of our hobbies forever hanging behind us as a backdrop. Now, if it's not a Facebook group, or a Twitter user with 10,000+ followers, or a website with a thousand digg, delicious, reddit, etc, icons hastily taped on to each entry, then it's not really a thing. It's not a real item to worry about, it's nothing to concern you. As we "social"ize each of our hobbies and desires into a sanitary urn, we lose something. "Viral marketing" has replaced real marketing. Innovation is ignored because we finally found out what the Web was really good for: More noise. Me, I am over the web. I'm good with it, and I like to craft applications that harness the power of the user. But I'm a minority. And the last thing I want to do with my time these days is to shepherd new developers and designers with their stale ideas into a marketplace already dominated by mediocrity. So I don't even write about what I do anymore. These days, I write about what is in my head, and ignore any democratization of my thoughts. The Web used to be free, my friend. Now it's a big, meaty fruit, a bland, texture-less fruit that millions feast at every moment, and with each bite take a little piece of my soul with it. But me... Yeah, I'm as sad and angry as this post seems :) -[url=http://blog.brokenhattrick.com]S[/url] Loading...
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