Dark Thoughts
Dec. 22nd, 2020 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grayestofghostsI am not really sure how to gather my thoughts right now but I feel like there is something evil out there, some kind of thing that is putting the "doom" in doomscrolling, so to speak, even moreso than we have already seen. And I am not sure where it is coming from or what to do with this feeling.
It might be useful to read this article I saw recently on the Atlantic about Facebook, Google, Youtube, and to a lesser extent Twitter as being doomsday devices. It's interesting to read on its own but there's more to it than just normal depression on the state of social media being social media. There was also the recent SolarWinds hack, and more and more around here it seems like major newsstations are having strange interruptions in their programming, like images freezing or technical difficulties, and I've had some major errors with ecommerce systems recently.
I guess when I put it like that, it seems kind of silly, like disparate computerized events falling into a pattern for no reason. I mean, earlier this year we were having major internet outage issues and I was starting to think that something greater was wrong with the local grid but it turned out we just had a failing modem. It's easy to think something greater is afoot when there has been greater things afoot recently, I think, and I may be suffering from some nostalgia, from when the web was smaller and it was a little easier to curate your own feed and not have a mysterious all-knowing algorithm do it for you without your explicit knowledge.
And I guess I'm posting this all here because I really miss LiveJournal.
It might be useful to read this article I saw recently on the Atlantic about Facebook, Google, Youtube, and to a lesser extent Twitter as being doomsday devices. It's interesting to read on its own but there's more to it than just normal depression on the state of social media being social media. There was also the recent SolarWinds hack, and more and more around here it seems like major newsstations are having strange interruptions in their programming, like images freezing or technical difficulties, and I've had some major errors with ecommerce systems recently.
I guess when I put it like that, it seems kind of silly, like disparate computerized events falling into a pattern for no reason. I mean, earlier this year we were having major internet outage issues and I was starting to think that something greater was wrong with the local grid but it turned out we just had a failing modem. It's easy to think something greater is afoot when there has been greater things afoot recently, I think, and I may be suffering from some nostalgia, from when the web was smaller and it was a little easier to curate your own feed and not have a mysterious all-knowing algorithm do it for you without your explicit knowledge.
And I guess I'm posting this all here because I really miss LiveJournal.
