Are we streamlining the web?

I remember the first time I got on the web. Freshman year in college. Email was all green and just text. So much information was out there. It was amazing. And then things got more and more graphic-y and things started to slow down. Then came the high speed revolution and media/tv and music started flowing through the inter-tubes at an amazing pace. Every Jo-Blo had a blog(me as well) and we just started putting nonsense on the net.

I find myself streamlining my web browsing experience even as I visit a far larger array of sites. Maybe it’s because of that. First I stopped going to the traditional sites and moved more to the blogs that give you just enough info, and if you want more you could go to the provided link. Now I’m streamlining even more, using sites Like Twitter, to just get the headlines from my favorite destinations and only leaving twitter if something appeals to me.

It’s even affected how much I blog here. In the past I would make a post if I liked a movie or went to a show. Now I get lazy and write a sentence on a movie through Twitter. “That was a good movie.” What used to take a paragraph can be summed up in one sentence. Does it make it interesting? Not really, but you know where I stand without reading through my reasons why.
I don’t really know how I feel about the lessening of content, but it’s here and I’m sure there is another new Twitter, waiting around the corner for all of us.

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