web 2.0 hell:

Entry2: We begin our descent:
Okay, it's 2010, headlong into the Digital consumer Age, New Millenia,... promises things are going to be different and awesome and that there is going to be the awesome power to look up whatever you want. Heck, this'll even democratize things, allow more people places to be able to say things. More places, opportunities for people to self publish whatever enlightened concepts or shlock they want. Sounds like cool beans, but then this might happen:

Let's say you want to transmit a complex idea. You go online, you try to look for a site that's about what you want to talk about only to be bombarded with mindnumbing celebrity gossip and sports stuff and ideas that are the opposite of what you are trying to look up then peppered with advertisements. Things try to redirect you to social networking places and options to look for something yourself vanish. Instead you are goaded into subscribing to these chattery places where people review books, games, movies, etc but that isn't what you were trying to look up. Then when you try to find something that isn't what other people are already doing, what isn't prominent or popular there are many dead ends. Increasingly it tries to coax you into sharing things you like with friends. The layout of pages now, why so much white and light blue? why only a sentence or two from the article on a news site? Why having to click so many more times to get anywhere near the actual article itself?

Are people really so very averse to reading that they think they can get something that's a meaningful gist from just one badly picked half of a sentence of the part that says which brands are involved with providing it?

So then you try to write about it. You have to find the right channels with which to do so. Do it in the wrong ones you get your skull bashed in by neanderthals and opportunists.

You go to where you should be able to find somewhere to express what you were trying to express and find out that it's closed, gone, dead. Not enough mass demand or whatever.


What about times where you aren't trying to see what it is the masses are interested in but you want to look up something you are interested in?

And say you don't care how many "digs", "thumbs up", stars, hearts or "likes" something has because you aren't trying to see how many other people who liked something judged it to be good or bad, you're just trying to look at something and evaluate it for yourself?
Then what??