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Haptalaon ([personal profile] haptalaon) wrote2019-04-03 07:08 pm

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I always forget how genuinely resource intensive checking dreamwidth is. The comparison between it and newer internet - tumblr, Facebook, insta etc - is truly alarming.

When I talk about the early internet, I feel like a nostalgic idiot. Like, maybe I was just young?

But then I check my DW reading page in an idle moment and - fuck! There's six or eight really good posts there, and I have to actually engage with the substance of them. I can't just click like. And they're not designed to be skim read either. Checking DW is a markedly different activity to checking any newer social media site. You can't just graze.

This, in case it isn't clear, is a good thing -but also a sad one, like, it's proof. And it's also proof of how my ability to be online has changed - it's an active effort to remember stuff like, replying to comments properly instead of just nodding as we pass, how to exist in a social sphere which is genuinely more like a place containing people than the infinite exposure of fast media.

I feel like these are skills i once had and then forgot.
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[personal profile] earthspirits 2019-04-03 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
An excellent and thought provoking post. And - reminds me why I love DW as opposed to other more "modern" social networking sites.