Why I Still Like the Internet

The determination to move away from the addictive doom-scrolling of social media has given me pause, given me space to look around at how I use the internet and figure out where I get most value and where I WANT to get it from. TLDR; unsurprisingly, it’s connection to people. When social media first appeared it really was about the people using it; admittedly for us early adopters who were already well established online within our own little niché of semi-similarity minded people — think blogrolls and webrings — the rise of Twitter was exciting and immediate and, hey look, all my favourite online friends are all there too. It was a closing of the gap that blogs and blog comments couldn’t quite bridge. Blog posts would get posted everyday, but even with comments, their life span was only as long as the next post. Whilst the immediacy of posting and commenting was addictive (and I believe it’s really where social media was born) it wasn’t conversational enough, there was no joint…