Author: Bijan Stephen
Time spent online is largely time spent feeling jaded, with brief interruptions for grimaces (seeing a bad post) and half-smiles (seeing a good one). Rare is the content that can evoke a genuine feeling. And yet, there’s so much of it! Given that most of us are connected to the internet most of the time — desktops and laptops at work and school; smartphones at work and school and home and anywhere else that has a viable cellular connection — that means mindless boredom has reached an unimaginable scale, and that it’s simultaneously way more profound than it was in the ’90s, when it was a dominant cultural force. (And anyway, now that everyone’s online, good posts are becoming harder to find.) That uniquely internet feeling can be...
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Time spent online is largely time spent feeling jaded, with brief interruptions for grimaces (seeing a bad post) and half-smiles (seeing a good one). Rare is the content that can evoke a genuine feeling. And yet, there’s so much of it! Given that most of us are connected to the internet most of the time — desktops and laptops at work and school; smartphones at work and school and home and anywhere else that has a viable cellular connection — that means mindless boredom has reached an unimaginable scale, and that it’s simultaneously way more profound than it was in the ’90s, when it was a dominant cultural force. (And anyway, now that everyone’s online, good posts are becoming harder to find.) That uniquely internet feeling can be...
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