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3 April 2019 19:08![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonI 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.
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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Date: 3 April 2019 23:02 (UTC)no subject
Date: 4 April 2019 12:22 (UTC)For me, I'm trying to focus on using DW as much as I love DW. Like, I still crave the hit other social media provides, even though I know that here is more nourishing.
It's taking time & habit breaking to remember here is where I want to be, and that DW can't and won't fill the niche left by other social media sites, and I need to relearn how to relate to it properly.