Thursday, February 03, 2011
It seems that the warnings are everywhere. Be careful what you post online, one day it will catch up with you. Obviously partying college students should be careful because very soon they will be looking for employment and that drunken trip to Burger King will exist on MySpace forever... Or will it? Are we so self-absorbed that we really believe that anything we do today will last forever? Sure, of course there are those blogs that rise above the rest, distinguishing themselves as something meaningful and worthwhile. I have little doubt that this blog for example will be studied and discussed in Ancient History classes 3000 years from now. As the Internet gets fuller and fuller of crap, each individual item becomes less and less important. Eventually the whole Internet will become a complete waste of time and will be abandoned. Of course some will continue to update their Profiles, completely out of habit of course, but this will be done without even looking at any given site. Monitors will become obsolete in about three or four years, because the only thing the Internet will be good for is dumping useless information. "Posting your status" will become analogous with "using the bathroom"... It's just something you do, but no one really wants to know about it.
