FoshizniK!

This post at Guyism, if you can bare the annoying habit of auto-playing movie trailers, struck me as being a little short.

Their “six signs you spend too much time on the internet” are all well and good, but there are a few missing, and we need to allow some nods to old “signs you spend too much time online” posts from the old days – you know, before Facebook, before free blogs, when a dotcom cost fifty quid and you had to send them a cheque to pay for it.

First, the points Guyism raises. Vis, you speak in Twitter, you speak in the third person, you threw away your TV because everything is online, you know everything before it happens because of the 743 blogs you read daily, you have friends you have never met in person and you have no attention span.

The last one is interesting. Once upon a time, before tabbed browsing (who would have thought that something so simple would be so great?) you had a long attention span. 56k modems were considered fast. As Roy states on the IT Crowd, “you’d be up all night and you’d only see eight women.” Now, if a YouTube video takes more than three seconds to buffer, I give up on it. Bet you do too. The internet hasn’t made us impatient, but broadband certainly has. (more…)