The internet has changed. Not for the better.
A big part of it used to be linking between sites. Ideas and information connected. Now the biggest platforms downrank anything that sends you away.
Headlines used to inform. Now they’re just clickbait.
It used to feel like a place for human creativity and shared knowledge. Now it’s increasingly just computer generated content.
Feels like we’ve engineered ourselves into a corner where the internet is no longer the information hub we need.
@simonbs –
(I'll take this to mean the Web.)
Even as a teenager, I was aware no one needed permission to exist on it, implying such a home of cleverness, community, benevolence and value would garner lies, ill will, delusion and clumsy thinking – that was, it seemed, the preparatory mindset with which anyone should enter it. So I take this "change" as an affirmation the Web has *not* changed in that most important way.
@simonbs –
This recent trend of laws forbidding teenagers, even superseding the wishes of their parents, from using some sites to communicate with each other; that kind of thing strikes me as change that's not for the better.
Simon B. Støvring
Steve Barnes