This great commentary on Newsweek sums up some of my recent thoughts quite well. As I’m struggling to decide weather and when to start using Facebook, while its flawed privacy policy yet again got negative media coverage, I decided to take a fresh look at what Internet communication has really brought us as a society and me personally…
Anyhow, here an excerpt from the article:
I mean, look at us, lining up outside Apple stores like a bunch of kooks. Or walking around, staring down at our phones. We’ve been turned into zombie people.
Oh, but we’re very, very busy zombies. We’re reading e-mail. We’re tweeting and retweeting. We’re downloading apps, and uploading photos. We’re updating our Facebook status and reading our news feeds and telling the whole world what we like and don’t like, because for some reason we imagine that the whole world actually cares. You know what we’re not doing? We’re not thinking. We’re processing. There’s a difference.
We’re putting our brains into neutral, and revving the engine. We’re digitally dithering, clicking on links and swimming through a torrent of useless garbage being thrown at us by idiots and self-promoters, pundits and PR flacks and marketing people.
What’s happening is this: we are being so overwhelmed by the noise and junk zooming past us that we’re becoming immune to it. We’ve become a nation of Internet-powered imbeciles, with an ever-lower threshold for inanity.
If you have doubts yourself, go ahead and read the full article “Confessions of a Tech Apostate” or check out “The Secret Cost of Using Facebook” by the same author…
