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March 31, 2003the internet is boringPerhaps it may just be the simple fact that I really don't know what to do with all the bandwidth at my disposal, but I find the internet more boring than a lecture by my English professor. I'm not into searching out porn, those days are long over. I've read enough fanfic to send my head spinning and the inside critic praying for a bomb to wipe out the grammatically inept. I cut out most of the junk in my e-mail so the OCD checking is met with a let down as there is nothing more to read. I get enough news on tv since I've been home with my surgery to even bother with going to CNN. I'm frustrated with my computer and the internet. I spent my income tax check upgrading my computer to build a beast worthy of this month and I feel that a 5 year old child addicted to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets uses theirs more than I. I'm passionless, deflated, and annoyed all at the same time. Sure I should be working on a website for my design class but I lack the vision. It's hard working with a partner collaborating on a concept when I'm in charge of design and they're in charge of content. I can't go further without a title. Yesterday, I was in the bathroom taking one of my massive deuces when I needed my mind to be taken away from the pain and agony I've been feeling. I picked up Goo's Sports Illustrated from early March and noticed something: all the ads in the bloody mag are understandably male oriented. From numerous artery-clogging junk food ads to sports gear, trucks, junkyard wars show, and beer. The most depressing thing is that artery-clogging ads out numbered the remaining ads. One in particular to Cheez-Its said, "Watch TV with your arm around the one you love." Obviously not meaning their significant other, but a suggestive message about fisting the box of Cheez-Its as you munch incessantly and mindlessly until the box is devoured during this March Madness. Taking a look at two different cultures, Japanese and American, you'll notice something. Instead of dealing with issues, these cultures turn to something else to cradle their insecurities and failures. Porn, Suicide, and Food. Porn makes you feel good; watch porn, jerk off, and go to sleep. Suicide makes the problems go away by making yourself go away, snuff out yourself and snuff out your problems - problem solved. Food solves everything, it turns an incident at the pool where your swimtrunks didn't remain on to a situation where all the girls saw your stuff and didn't mind it. The other idea is use drugs, escape reality. I know a solution to parenting and ADD/ADHD: stop overdosing your fucking children with sugar. Hop them up on sugar and they go crazy. I've seen it numerous times, especially at a birthday party with soda, ice cream, and cake. Five minutes later, they're all jumping around like chimpanzees and their ability to remain attentive drops like Michael Jackson's pants at Chuck E Cheese. Perhaps parents should stop being escapists and learn how to deal with the problems they face instead of introducing a coping mechanism or horrible solution to the situation at hand. Now I'm going to go and escape my problem with boredom with a nice long shower. At least it's something productive and might get the creative juices flowing. 10:40 AM
Commentsyou are so funny! Posted by: katie dorsey at April 6, 2003 12:03 PM Yes Yes Yes the internet is boring the romance is over. Posted by: ANN_T at July 17, 2003 09:42 PM I sick of emailing friends with one upmanship jokes, without Napster the internet sucks so bad. If I want intelectual bullshit, I will read a book. Posted by: David at September 24, 2003 08:03 PM And I thought I was the only one who felt this way. The internet is so boring. It really sucks. If you're not making a living on the computer, or buying something, then what's the point? Mindless surfin' is just that....Mindless! You have a better time watching grass grow. Posted by: Reg at September 25, 2003 10:43 PM Anything is better than the internet. I am disabled and although I now own two computers, (why?),..I would rather sleep or read than "surf the internet". A few years back it was different, as there was a lot more stuff to do online. Now everything is an ad or a come on, and nothing free or worthwhile. All the cool websites I used to visit are gone and all that remains is the drivel. I pay for my cable, but now am finding that in order to do anything online I have to pay again, and again, and again seperate from any internet charges. And since I have no credit cards (thank God), the internet seems pointless and void of meaningful content. If it were to vanish tomorrow, I wouldn't miss it much. Posted by: Deacon at October 7, 2003 06:23 AM I whole heartedly agree with you. I pay money to own my site, to host it, to have the bandwidth to play and post to it so I can understand that some places charge a fee or insist on placing those rather annoying blinking banner ads. But I would never do that to my site, if I want to have it up then I should be the one fronting the costs, not anyone who reads it. Luckily for me I have classes that take up the crux of my free time and projects that have now made the internet useful for something. Posted by: bitterdiva at October 7, 2003 08:40 AM I agree in part with what I see here. I find the internet to be an endless sea of fools but at the same time a tool for personal enrichment. There are days (like today) where all I can think of is why the hell we created such a huge thing as the internet and then allowed it to be run by advertising firms that always annoy us. Who knows, in the future we may use this as a tool to enrich our lives rather than looking at golf websites or what the latest news is with J-Lo. However for now all we can do is sit and surf with the hopes that people will create something to entertain us in ways we aren't already bored with. The truth of the matter is that as we've evolved over the last few years to incorporate this "tool" in to our daily lives we have lost that child-like interest in what may be out there. I blame pop-ups for my frustration with "surfing". However, if sites like this continue to dot the digital landscape, maybe one day we will find this fascinating again. Until then.... Posted by: Banaczech at October 30, 2003 10:56 PM the internet luster is over. It was once fun when it like a new found land where everything was wild and new. Now its porn,paying to get useless information that i can get for free if i really look, worrying about stupid spyware and viruses. Nothing is new...Lastly is spam.I am really tired of the word SPAM. People who complain about it are the people who are fueling it. Stop clicking on the ads, stop signing up for jokes and mail for free stuff. Nothing is free. Remember that. Whats wrong with giving a fake email address when you really dont need to give your adress?? The government should really stop all the snail junk mail i get from credit card companies. I continue having to tear up to 10 applications a week in fear of Charlie the garbage man filling out the application and getting a new plasma TV. Get over spam!!The internet sucks Posted by: tom at November 4, 2003 05:53 PM Yet we all keep coming back like suckers. Posted by: Banaczech at November 10, 2003 09:10 AM That's because we ARE suckers! Posted by: Reg at December 5, 2003 11:10 PM the internet is never boring. you can travel the world online from a wheelchair. I do. -Chris Posted by: iwebstreet Post a comment
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