The new isolation
Mar. 4th, 2014 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartI really miss the times when we were still discussing our shared interests online; on the Yahoo mailing lists or here, on LiveJournal. Since I don't truly have people around me in RL who'd share my rather eclectic interests, the internet was the place where I could break out of my isolation.
Those times seem to be over. With a few cherished exceptions, most of my online acquaintances have vanished from the Net. And to find new ones is very hard, now that the younger generations have all wandered off to BookFace, Twitter and other hectic places. I do understand that those places fit the short attention span of today's youth better. Nothing seems to be of endurance in these days; nothing seems to be important enough.
I find it a shame, though, that at least we, older ones don't try to keep in touch. Yes, we all have our lives outside the internet (don't even let me start about the insanity that is my working schedule and how utterly exhausted it leaves me most of the time), but are we really so willing to give up that little fun that used to help us overcome the general greyness of life?
No, this is not an elaborate wink to gain more readers. I'm beyond trying to do that. What I'd like to still do is to discuss things with people. In length. I assume we still read the occasional book or watch the one or other film or TV show. We've met through our shared interests, mostly - is all that really gone?
If yes, then it's a sad, sad thing, IMO.
Those times seem to be over. With a few cherished exceptions, most of my online acquaintances have vanished from the Net. And to find new ones is very hard, now that the younger generations have all wandered off to BookFace, Twitter and other hectic places. I do understand that those places fit the short attention span of today's youth better. Nothing seems to be of endurance in these days; nothing seems to be important enough.
I find it a shame, though, that at least we, older ones don't try to keep in touch. Yes, we all have our lives outside the internet (don't even let me start about the insanity that is my working schedule and how utterly exhausted it leaves me most of the time), but are we really so willing to give up that little fun that used to help us overcome the general greyness of life?
No, this is not an elaborate wink to gain more readers. I'm beyond trying to do that. What I'd like to still do is to discuss things with people. In length. I assume we still read the occasional book or watch the one or other film or TV show. We've met through our shared interests, mostly - is all that really gone?
If yes, then it's a sad, sad thing, IMO.
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Date: 2014-03-05 08:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-06 01:15 pm (UTC)But yeah, I mourn for the old Tolkien group very much. I hoped that the coms and mailing lists will raise of the ashes after "The Hobbit", but fandom has obviously moved on to other online places, where I can't and don't want to follow.