No longer a series of tubes..

After reading The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet by Anderson and Wolff I have a few ideas I'd like to touch on concerning the matter.

Sidpicky

Firstly I'd like to discuss how we as a society now hold knowledge to such a high degree in this day and age. The more up to date a person is the more valuable they are in whatever they are working on. The advent of new technologies as a platform for streaming information to new more mobile devices helps amplify this as many seem to be able to find information that, in decades before, would have simply been unknown until someone knew and explained it. Anderson and Wolff both give compelling arguments of the new world of media we live in as they give their renditions of who to blame for this new age of artificial society.

In many ways they are both right and it is difficult to argue with many of their points, but one point I agreed with fully, was this concept we have developed that applications such as social media sites now dictate how people interact. It is a sad day when others can see 500 friends on someone's page but see that no one ever actually visits that person in their home. It all comes down to what is more convenient for people. How it is so much easier for someone to simply "Like" or comment on something as opposed to discussing it further in a more social location. 

Few instances of how some are fighting back:

• Recently more and more commercials depicting how awkward and silly most of these social networking sites are.
• More information on what these sites do with your information that you post. Such as the used of your information for distribution to ad companies so that they may draw you in with fake advertisements. IE: "You like Darth Vader? Here are some Darth Vader T-shirts!"

In the end we will decide what is best for ourselves and see what we want to get sucked into and not. Hype and the trend of the day seem to sway people so much easier these days and all the rest of us can do is shake our heads and hope they wake up.