My personal reflections on my 30+ years on the internet

Apologies for the word soup, just a stream of thoughts that I don't have the energy or interest to make into a coherent post. After learning the ropes of the internet on BBS's, I slowly learned to make websites back in the 1990's, I then contributed heavily to a large indie music news site (preparing news and writing reviews etc), ran street teams for bands on Myspace and ended up organising a few gigs. For personal use I joined Facebook a month after it opened to non .edu people and was a livejournaler from beta stage to its sale to a Russian company in 2007 (I still have a few close friends that I made on LJ that I still snail mail to today 20+ years later), an instagrammer from early until meta, a twitterer from early on until around the 140 word rule came in and so much just became YouTube links and angry rants. I try new sites and actively use them until I don't feel comfortable or feel as if a personal red line has been crossed by the owners/shareholders whomever, then I move…